These poll officials are breaking the internet
Shailvee Sharda & Jamal Ayub TNN
Lucknow/Bhopal 15.05.2019
: Two polling officers have become internet sensations after their photographs, clicked while on duty during the Lok Sabha polls, went viral online. They have been flooded with friends’ request on social media, approached by strangers for selfies and TV cameras have chased them home for interviews.
One of them is Deoriabased Reena Dwivedi, who was on duty in Lucknow. A photograph of her carrying an EVM was clicked by a colleague and drew a torrent of response on internet. In Bhopal, Canara Bank officer Yogeshwari Gohite had a similar experience for her polling day pictures.
Enjoying her fleeting WhatsApp and TikTok moments of fame, Dwivedi said, “I was married early but I had a career for myself. People are liking me and I am enjoying every moment of it. Who doesn’t like getting noticed? I am happy,” the 32-year-old junior assistant in UP state PWD told TOI.
Dwivedi says the best reaction came from her son Aadit, a Class IX student. “He urged me to make a video call to his friends to make them believe that the woman in yellow saree is actually his mother,” said Dwivedi, who joined the PWD in 2013. She has also worked in the insurance sector.
Talking to TOI on Monday, Dwivedi said, “This is not the first time that I was posted on election duty. I have served at different centres in Lucknow in LS 2014 polls and 2017 state elections. But a routine snapshot turned me into a celebrity.”
Reena and her husband Sanjay would be going back home in Deoria to cast their vote in the final phase on May 19. “I am a firm believer in Indian democracy. I have never missed my duty to cast vote,” she said.
Gohite was deputed as polling officer at the ITI polling station in Govindpura. Within moments of her arrival, news photographers zoomed in on her. By afternoon, her photos had gone viral on the internet.
Journalists tried to speak with Gohite, but she denied, pointing out that she was on duty. When TOI caught up with her on Monday, she said she was quite surprised by all the attention. “I dress the way I like. I do not have any fashion role models. A dress should not define a woman. It is our professionalism and work ethics that should matter,” she said.
A TOUCH OF GLAMOUR: Reena Dwivedi (left); Yogeshwari Gohite
Shailvee Sharda & Jamal Ayub TNN
Lucknow/Bhopal 15.05.2019
: Two polling officers have become internet sensations after their photographs, clicked while on duty during the Lok Sabha polls, went viral online. They have been flooded with friends’ request on social media, approached by strangers for selfies and TV cameras have chased them home for interviews.
One of them is Deoriabased Reena Dwivedi, who was on duty in Lucknow. A photograph of her carrying an EVM was clicked by a colleague and drew a torrent of response on internet. In Bhopal, Canara Bank officer Yogeshwari Gohite had a similar experience for her polling day pictures.
Enjoying her fleeting WhatsApp and TikTok moments of fame, Dwivedi said, “I was married early but I had a career for myself. People are liking me and I am enjoying every moment of it. Who doesn’t like getting noticed? I am happy,” the 32-year-old junior assistant in UP state PWD told TOI.
Dwivedi says the best reaction came from her son Aadit, a Class IX student. “He urged me to make a video call to his friends to make them believe that the woman in yellow saree is actually his mother,” said Dwivedi, who joined the PWD in 2013. She has also worked in the insurance sector.
Talking to TOI on Monday, Dwivedi said, “This is not the first time that I was posted on election duty. I have served at different centres in Lucknow in LS 2014 polls and 2017 state elections. But a routine snapshot turned me into a celebrity.”
Reena and her husband Sanjay would be going back home in Deoria to cast their vote in the final phase on May 19. “I am a firm believer in Indian democracy. I have never missed my duty to cast vote,” she said.
Gohite was deputed as polling officer at the ITI polling station in Govindpura. Within moments of her arrival, news photographers zoomed in on her. By afternoon, her photos had gone viral on the internet.
Journalists tried to speak with Gohite, but she denied, pointing out that she was on duty. When TOI caught up with her on Monday, she said she was quite surprised by all the attention. “I dress the way I like. I do not have any fashion role models. A dress should not define a woman. It is our professionalism and work ethics that should matter,” she said.
A TOUCH OF GLAMOUR: Reena Dwivedi (left); Yogeshwari Gohite
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