Differently abled individuals are urging Mumbaikars to make it a franchise wise Wednesday and get their fingers inked, leading by example. Amarjeet Singh Chawla, 69, who is blind, is going to walk from his Kandivli West home to the polling station assisted by his sighted wife, Gurpreet Kaur Chawla. Chawla said, “The polling station personnel will hand over a sheet in Braille at the time of inking my finger, which will assist me. I will be able to discern who I am voting for through my tactile sense of the buttons and the Braille sheet helps too.”

The spirited Sikh, who is a marathoner, added, “I have heard plenty of nonsensical excuses by able persons about it being too hot to vote, or queues being very long. How exactly then do they find the inclination to gadabout in the heat and brave queues for something they like to do and only have these problems during polling time? If I can, you can get your finger inked too.”