BENGALURU: A food joint in Chamarajpet is helping create awareness through a poster campaign among its customers to vote in the upcoming Assembly elections.
Customers visiting ‘Kannada Tindi Hotel’ are not only treated to a variety of food items, but also with information about great writers and the history of Kannada, and the place is filled with flags. Ahead of the Assembly elections, the owner of the eatery has also pasted posters about voting to create awareness.
Through the poster campaign, he has has been trying to create awareness among customers. The posters, put up around the hotel, appeal to people not to sell their votes. The voter turnout had been quite low in the city during the previous Assembly election.
“The state election authorities have been conducting elections in a free and fair manner, but the people of Bengaluru do not vote. When people do not vote, morally, they cannot ask for facilities. We do not get many chances to vote, so I wanted to create awareness among customers who come to my food joint. I appeal to people not to get involved in gift politics. They are spending our money on elections. Every election, I create awareness among people. I ask everyone to vote and not sell their votes”, said Ramachandra, owner of Kannada Tindi hotel.
“We should not sell our votes. We should choose our elected representatives based on their work. I am a regular customer here, and they are doing a good job by creating awareness about voting among customers like us”, said Sharath, a customer.