Narendra Modi requests Tendulkar, Amitabh Bachchan, SRK & others to promote voter registration

A tweet sent to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar read, "Dear @sachin_rt lets encourage voter registration among 18-24 yr olds.

NEW DELHI: Requesting 'prominent voices' on social media to promote voter registration in the country, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday used his Twitter handle, @narendramodi, to send out tweets to many actors, politicians and sportsmen.


One such tweet sent to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar read, "Dear @sachin_rt lets encourage voter registration among 18-24 yr olds. Large number of them are unregistered. EC drive presently underway." He sent similar tweets to Kiran Bedi, Preity Zinta, Hrithik Roshan, Shahrukh Khan,Anupam Kher, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan. 

The tweets also appealed to Opposition leader Shashi Tharoor and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Twitter handle @PMOIndia to encourage voter registration. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Sushma Swaraj were also asked to do the same. 

Modi also tweeted, "Studies point to several eligible voters who are yet unregistered. Are you one of them? Now is the time to get registered ASAP!." 

Last Sunday, BJP's prime ministerial candidate Modi asked youths to exercise their franchise for a strong and powerful government in Delhi. 

"Do you want a self-reliant, strong and powerful country and strong government at Delhi?" he said, asking the youths to exercise their franchise judiciously. 

The Gujarat Chief Minister advised them to check whether their names figure in the voting list. 

"You must check whether you have the voting right," he said, urging ex-servicemen and youths to ensure that people in their neighbourhood are eligible voters and that they caste their votes. 

"Many among us could not serve our motherland by joining the forces...but there is another opportunity to do so and it is by using the power to vote," he said, addressing an ex-servicemen rally in the Ahirwal belt of southern Haryana. 

"The right to vote is the biggest gift that our Constitution provided us," he said. 

"Getting people enrolled for voting after attaining the age of 18 is a sacred work," he said.