First-time voters between the ages of 18 and 19 will be an integral part of the elections and PM Modi has already made an outreach to them. What are the issues that drive them?
Name: Karan Hemla
Age: 21
Occupation: BSc student at Government Model Residential College, Javanga, Dantewada district
Place: Cherpal, Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh
Constituency: Bastar
Did you vote?: Chooses not to disclose
Why not: Unsafe because of insurgency
What the new govt should do: The government must work in interior jungle villages and not just villages beside main roads
What the new govt shouldn’t do: Corruption in government recruitments
Bastar voted on April 19