A slice of south Mumbai congregated at a Cuffe Parade Garden recently, to listen to the Additional Chief Electoral Officer Maharashtra and Joint Secretary K Kulkarni, tell them about rights, voting procedure and the importance of voting.

That meet, reported in this paper, did not turn out to be a speech and preach but an interaction with a clutch of locals. The top officer was pushing hard to up numbers of voter participation in the State Assembly elections on November 20.