While 48 % of Pune's voters chose to waste their vote, Team MiD DAY met those who are still fighting for their right

Eunuchs

Even as Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, a eunuch, moved the Maharashtra Human Rights Commission demanding that the right to vote be extended to eunuchs and transgenders as a community, nearly 70 per cent of them had to stay away from yesterday's polls due to lack of proper documentation.

"Hardly 20-30 per cent of them voted, as most have not received voter ID cards. Since we have no documentation like ration cards, or other acceptable photo IDs, the voter cards are a must. Even the documentation we have is conflicting. For instance, our birth certificates mention us as male, but eunuchs usually dress as women and go with feminine names. Since there isn't a third choice, many stay away," said eunuch Daljeet Singh, member of NGO Aadhar that works in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. Daljeet was one of the few from the community who did manage to cast vote.

Sex workers