GS Paul
Amritsar, February 20
Amritsar’s conjoined twins cast their votes separately early as voting opened on Sunday morning.
The twins, Sohna and Mohana, are first-time voters, having turned 18 only last year.
“Everyone should cast their votes to help make a ‘Nava (new) Punjab’. When we can do it, why shouldn’t others,” the visibly excited twins said at a polling station at Manawala
The two are the Amritsar administration’s ambassadors for its special ‘Sanman’ campaign to urge people, especially those with disabilities, first-timers, and voters over 80, to come out to vote.
Born on June 14, 2003, at a New Delhi hospital, Sohna and Mohana share a torso, a pair of legs, a liver, and a gallbladder but have separate arms, kidneys and spinal cords.
Having been shunned by their parents and society, they have since been living at Amritsar’s Pingalwara Home under doctors’ care.
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