Udaipur: Sexagenarian Satyendra Kumar Arora, from Rajasthan's Udaipur, had enthusiastically left home to exercise franchise in the ongoing assembly elections, but paid with his life after he collapsed while waiting in the queue to cast a vote. In a tragic incident reported on polling day, the elderly man died after his health suddenly deteriorated at the polling booth, sources said.
An official said that 69-year-old Satyendra Kumar Arora collapsed all of a sudden at Anthony School in the Hiranmagari police station area of Udaipur where voting was underway on Saturday morning for the assembly elections. As soon as Satyendra Kumar was going to the polling booth to cast his vote, he suddenly fell down.
The people present at the polling booth took Arora to the hospital, where doctors declared him dead. The cause of the death was not immediately known. It was not clear whether Arora died due to hypothermia in the ongoing winter or whether he was suffering from an existing illness. Hiran Magri police station officer Darshan Singh confirmed the death of the man at the polling station in Udaipur.
He said that 69-year-old Satyendra Kumar, a resident of Hiran Magri had come to vote on a bicycle to cast his vote. Locals said that Arora had come out on his bicycle to cast his vote and was completely healthy. Voting is going on for 199 out of the 200 assembly seats for the assembly elections. Polling for the Karanpur seat of Ganganagar is pending after the death of sitting Congress MLA Gurmeet Singh Konoor. According to election officials, over 5.26 crore voters are expected to exercise their franchise.
