Guwahati (Assam): Dispur Government Higher Secondary School has been identified as one of the most important polling stations in the Dispur assembly constituency for more than two decades as former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and his wife Gurucharan Kaur had cast their vote at this polling station for the past twenty years.
Dr Manmohan Singh and his wife who were tenants of former chief minister late Hiteshwar Saikia's Dispur Sarumotoria house were on the voters' list of Dispur constituency. Accordingly, both of them had been asserting their democratic rights at this centre.
But in 2020, Dr Singh along with his wife shifted their voting rights from Dispur to Delhi and currently, both of them are voters of Delhi. It was in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections that Dr Singh and his wife cast their vote in this constituency for the last time.
This VVIP polling station which has been under tight security in earlier elections no longer has that feature as Dr. Singh and his wife will never come here to vote again.
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Dr Singh’s name is listed under serial number 623 in the electoral roll of No. 52 Dispur legislative assembly constituency and his wife’s name is listed under serial no 624. The address of the Singh is mentioned as House No 3989, Sarumotoria, Guwahati, Assam.
It may be mentioned that Singh has been representing Assam in the Upper House since 1991. In 2013, Singh was elected to the Upper House from Assam for the fifth consecutive term and his term is due to expire in June this year.
Singh was offered a Rajya Sabha seat from Assam By former Assam Chief Minister Late Hiteswar Saikia in 1991 after Singh became the Union finance minister. Singh was a tenant in Saikia's house located at Sarumotoria locality in Guwahati.
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