The T.T.V. Dhinakaran-led AMMK's workers are buying up flattened cardboard boxes by the dozen, reshaping them into boxes. Covered with gift wrap and tied with a bow string, the boxes also sport stickers of Jayalalitha, Sasikala and Dhinakaran. Bigger boxes are displayed during campaigns and placed at big junctions with TTV’s banners; smaller ones are handed to voters. The party is clearly in a hurry to popularise its poll symbol with just two weeks in hand.
—G .C. Shekhar
Nagaland clocked the highest ever voter turnout in election history in 2004. The lowest ever turnout during Lok Sabha elections was in 1989, in Anantnag constituency of Jammu and Kashmir.
- 91.77% 2004: Nagaland
- 5.07% 1989: J&K
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