PTI, PATNA: Two young women, residents of the Bihar capital and joined at the head since birth, have earned the right to be treated as separate individuals with independent voting rights.
Sabah and Farah (23), the conjoined twins who live in Samanpura locality of the city, would be casting their votes on Sunday as per their respective choice unlike the 2015 assembly polls in the state when their names were inscribed on a single voter ID card and their vote was, consequently, treated as one.
The twins cannot be denied their individuality on account of the way they are physically. They have different minds, different opinions and choices. Therefore, this time they have been issued separate voter ID cards and they will be allowed to cast their votes by turns, District Magistrate, Patna, Kumar Ravi told PTI Saturday. He said the reason why they had been treated as a single voter could have been that it has to be secret ballot and no other individual is supposed to be present when one is casting his or her vote. However, the twins are conjoined in such a way that their heads are turned, always, in opposite directions. So there should not be much of a problem.
