Transgenders to manage Kolkata polling booth
Kolkata, April 13: Transgenders will be deployed at a polling booth in Kolkata for the April 30 assembly polls, an official said on Wednesday.
"One
booth
in
south
Kolkata
will
be
managed
by
a
few
members
of
the
third
gender,"
Smita
Pandey,
district
electoral
officer
for
Kolkata
South,
told
IANS.
"We will reveal the rest of the details a day ahead of the polls," she said.
Kolkata South goes to the polls on April 30. West Bengal has 758 members of the third gender enlisted as voters and two transgender candidates.
IANS
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