{"id":318955,"date":"2023-05-10T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/we-are-oldies-but-sudha-murty-to-young-voters-as-karnataka-votes\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T06:08:00","slug":"we-are-oldies-but-sudha-murty-to-young-voters-as-karnataka-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/we-are-oldies-but-sudha-murty-to-young-voters-as-karnataka-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We Are Oldies, But&#8230;&#8221;: Sudha Murty To Young Voters As Karnataka Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-05\/bht8d26o_sudha-murty-ani-twitter-_625x300_10_May_23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"&quot;My Duty As Citizen To Vote&quot;: Sudha Murty\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"&quot;My Duty As Citizen To Vote&quot;: Sudha Murty\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"&quot;My Duty As Citizen To Vote&quot;: Sudha Murty\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-05\/bht8d26o_sudha-murty-ani-twitter-_625x300_10_May_23.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-05-10T11:38:34+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=698953&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/10052023_n_SudhaMurthy_57578_25724_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T0M19S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-05\/bht8d26o_sudha-murty-ani-twitter-_625x300_10_May_23.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=650,height=400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=698953&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">&#8220;I always tell them (youth) to come and vote and then you have the power to talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Bengaluru: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Author-philanthropist Sudha Murty today cast her vote at a polling booth in Bengaluru&#8217;s Jayanagar in the Karnataka Assembly election that commenced at 7 am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanied by her husband and Infosys founder Narayana Murthy, she encouraged voters to come and vote.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ANI Sudha Murty said, &#8220;I always tell them (youth) to come and vote and then you have the power to talk, without voting you do not have any power to talk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | &#8220;I always tell them (youth) to come and vote and then you have the power to talk, without voting you do not have any power to talk,&#8221; says Sudha Murty<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KarnatakaElections?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KarnatakaElections<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1E8v0EEpUI\">pic.twitter.com\/1E8v0EEpUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1656139895403065344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Please look at us. We are oldies but we get up at 6 o&#8217;clock, come here and vote. Please learn from us. Voting is a sacred part of democracy,&#8221; the Padma Bhushan awardee said while talking to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband Narayan Murthy after casting his vote said, &#8220;It is the responsibility of the elders to sit down with youngsters and advise them why voting is important. That&#8217;s what my parents did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Urging people to exercise their franchise, Narayana Murthy said the people do not have the right to &#8220;criticise&#8221; the governance if they do not cast their votes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, we vote and then we can say this is good, this is not good but if we don&#8217;t do that then we don&#8217;t have the right to criticise,&#8221; he said while talking to the reporters. Murthy said he had returned this morning from abroad and had turned up to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani also cast his vote at a polling booth in Bengaluru&#8217;s Koramangala today.<\/p>\n<p>Polling for Karnataka Assembly elections began at 7 am amid tight security today.<\/p>\n<p>Three major political parties in the state &#8212; BJP, Congress and the Janata Dal-Secular (JDS)&#8211; have put in efforts to woo voters, making promises and levelling accusations at each other to secure a majority in the state&#8217;s 224-seat Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>These assembly elections, which are a critical test for the ruling BJP that&#8217;s hoping to beat precedent and return to power as well as for the Congress looking for electoral revival.<\/p>\n<p>Voting is being held for 224 assembly constituencies in Karnataka with 2,615 candidates in the fray.<\/p>\n<p>The fate of the candidates will be known on May 13, the day of the counting of votes. 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