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Title: Eunuchs want voter identity
Post by: Shana A on September 14, 2009, 08:05:38 AM
Eunuchs want voter identity

Express News Service
Posted: Monday , Sep 14, 2009 at 0518 hrs Mumbai:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/eunuchs-want-voter-identity/516812/ (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/eunuchs-want-voter-identity/516812/)

With the Assembly elections to be held next month, eunuchs and transgenders have once again put forward their demand to be extended the fundamental right of voting to them as a community.

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, member of NGO Astitva, along with a group of students and other social activists, has moved a four-page complaint before the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) terming the denial to vote as "gross violation of Human Rights in the state".