Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is promoting the awareness for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. He said Indian cricketers should be allowed to cast their vote from whichever city they are during the Indian Premier League 2019. Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the Indian cricketers to promote awareness about casting your vote before the all-important elections.
Almost all Indian cricketers will be busy for the next two months. Where they will be participating in the IPL and will have to travel very frequently. Hence, it is highly unlikely for them to make it to their constituency on the voting day. Hence, Ashwin wants a special service for them so they can cast vote in whichever city they will be on the voting day.
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“I would also like to request you Narendra Modi sir to enable every cricketer playing in the IPL to be allowed to cast their votes from whichever place they find themselves at,”
Ashwin wrote in response to the tweet.
I would also like to request you @narendramodi sir to enable every cricketer playing in the IPL to be allowed to cast their votes from which ever place they find themselves at. 🙏
— Ashwin Ravichandran (@ashwinravi99) March 25, 2019
Always thought voting is the fulcrum of our democracy and I definitely would like to urge the entire country, each and everyone of you from every nook and corner of our country to vote and choose their rightful leader. https://t.co/GXmsKh2TTh
— Ashwin Ravichandran (@ashwinravi99) March 25, 2019
The general elections will be held from April 11 to May 19 in seven phases, the dates clashing with the IPL which got underway from March 23. The IPL final is scheduled to take place on May 12 in Chennai. Despite taking out last two IPL, which took place in the year of general elections. BCCI didn’t opt to take the league outside India this time around.
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Earlier, Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, tagged several Indian cricketers to spread awareness before the elections and insisted voters to come out in huge number and give a proof of being the biggest democracy of the world.
R Ashwin is from Chennai and will be playing for Kings XI Punjab in IPL 2019. Hence, his chances to cast a vote in Chennai on the voting day are quite bleak and he made a special request to Indian Prime Minister.
