Dharamsala: A day after the Gujarat Assembly
passed a landmark bill which makes voting compulsory in local
body polls, the Himachal Pradesh government said it favoured
the same to make democracy broad-based.
"Himachal Pradesh will also try to introduce compulsory
voting in the local bodies elections to make poll at grassroot
level widely representative," Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal
told reporters here.
Going a step further, Dhumal said he would try to impress
upon the Centre to make adult franchise mandatory in state as
well as parliamentary elections for making democracy more
representative.
The chief minister, meanwhile, said in a bid to make
Himachal polythene free, the state government would make some
arrangements to collect polythene and other plastic items to
be used in road metalling work.
The state is launching a week-long special campaign from
tomorrow to make HP polythene free.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, December 20, 2009, 18:11