{"id":88972,"date":"2022-11-23T10:44:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T05:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88972"},"modified":"2022-11-23T10:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T05:14:04","slug":"encouraging-sex-workers-and-transgender-voters-to-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/encouraging-sex-workers-and-transgender-voters-to-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging sex workers and transgender voters to register"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vikas Raj, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), said on Tuesday that he wants to encourage sex workers and transgender people to register as voters and exercise their right to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An appeal was made by Vikash Raj to 52 NGOs working on behalf of sex workers in Telangana during a video conference to enrol sex workers in the Special Summary Revision (SSR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transgender and female sex workers participated in the video conference with NGOs that work on HIV prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the election commission, documentary proof should not be required in cases where sex workers lack documentary proof such as a place of residence; however, a booth level officer will verify a claimant&#8217;s residency by visiting the given address and submitting a verification report to the electoral registration officer or assistant electoral registration officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transgender welfare board members and NGOs working with the transgender community then provided suggestions to the CEO during a meeting with the transgender community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, district-level special campaigns will be carried out in the same manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vikas Raj, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), said on Tuesday that he wants to encourage sex workers and transgender people to register as voters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88974,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88972\/revisions\/88974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}