OMR gated communities glaringly absent in setting up polling booths within

The election coverage across media had a sprinkle of reports from Chennai about gated communities serving as voting centres, and surprisingly, none of these communities had an OMR address. That is odd, as odd as having Abhishek Sharma batting through the entire length of the power play, facing a healthy number of balls, but not having one sixer to his name. If gated communities ever felt at home anywhere it would be OMR. They would find themselves among kith and kin, given the number of communities nestling on the arterial road. OMR is a natural when it comes to “scoring” gated communities, it keeps adding them to its score at a clip and effortlessly too.

Harsha Koda, co-founder of Federation of OMR Residents Association, notes that efforts were on to have polling booths at a decent number of gated communities on OMR, but the efforts, though made in earnest, did not fructify.