India, Jan. 16 -- With polling underway in Pune on Thursday, January 15, political parties made special arrangements to ferry voters staying outside the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits to the city to cast their votes. A large number of voters who work in Pune happen to reside in other parts of the district. According to travel operators, multiple buses were booked early morning on polling day to ferry voters from areas such as Bhor, Shirval and the Indapur stretch along the Solapur highway to ensure their participation.

Many travel operators said that they were approached by political candidates/parties over the past few days to arrange dedicated buses. Mangesh Mhasawade, a travel operator from the Bhor-Shirval route, said, "Sinc...