Kerala Assembly elections | This tribal settlement sets a model with total voter turnout

Kurichiyad Kattunayakka settlement in Wayanad makes it a point to cast their votes

Members of the Kurichiyad Kattunayakka settlement, a remote Vulnerable Tribal Group (PVTG ) settlement inside the Wayanad Wildlife sanctuary, has set a model of sorts, with all its members exercising their franchise. Majority of the tribespersons in the settlement may be illiterate, but they make it a point to cast their votes on the poll day. This time, all the 57 members of the 58 members in the voters' list exercised their franchise at a polling booth set up in the former alternative school building in the settlement. However, a woman voter, Kully, who had left for Karnataka a few years ago could not cast her vote, said K. Balan, a member of the settlement. Earlier, security was stepped up in the area owing to Maoist threat.