Rishabh Pant roped in to spread awareness about voting ahead of Lok Sabha election

India cricketer Rishabh Pant might have seen the ruthless side of cricket in the fourth ODI against Australia on Sunday but he still continues to be a popular youth icon of the country. The 21-year-old has been roped in to encourage voters in Delhi to exercise their electoral duties in the upcoming Lok Sabha election, along with Manika Batra, the 23-year-old table tennis player from Delhi. Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ranbir Singh informed this on Monday. India will see a seven-phase election kicking off on April 11.

The two youngsters are set to spread awareness about the upcoming election through radio and video messages, Singh said in a press conference. Delhi has seven Lok Sabha seats and all of them will vote on May 12. The results will be declared on May 23. In 2014, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party had won all the seven seats in the capital.

‘Sports icons roped in to raise awareness’

“The sports icons have been roped in to spread awareness among the voters. Our effort will be to increase the total vote percentage this year from last time’s 65.02 percent,” Singh said.

This time, Delhi has 1.39 crore voters of which 62,35.814 are women and 647 transgender people, the CEO said. He also told the mediapersons about mobile applications like the PwD app and the C-vigil app that can be downloaded to apply for PWD (persons with disability) voter cards, report violations of Model Code of Conduct, among others.

Coming back to Pant, the talented youngster kept wickets for the first time in an ODI in Mohali and he clearly failed to beat the nervous energy. Pant missed stumping and run-out chances and was slammed on social media. His failed effort to ape the veteran MS Dhoni by trying to effect run-out without seeing the stumps added fuel to the fire. Pant was picked ahead of the experienced Dinesh Karthik for the ODI series but his show in Mohali could now put his chances of playing in the showpiece event in a spot.

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