Inadequate bus service leaves voters stranded
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Commuters waiting for buses at the Krishnagiri bus stand on Tuesday. While the district administration may have directed private firms and businesses to declare a holiday on Tuesday to ensure 100% voter participation, many people who headed out to their native districts to cast votes were left in the lurch without adequate bus services. This led to an irate public blocking a few private buses, forcing the police and the authorities to intervene.
People employed in companies in Hosur worked till Monday and were let off only on the polling day. Hundreds of commuters thronged the bus stand in Krishnagiri, from where they had to find connecting buses to their native districts. Even as the commuters had set out before the break of dawn to the bus stand, there were no buses even after 10 a.m.