Puri, May 23 -- Hotel Association of Puri (HAP) has announced 20 percent discount on food to local people who come forward and exercise their universal adult suffrage rights on May 25. The offer can be availed at all its member eateries in the pilgrim town, the outfit president Ramakrushna Dasmohapatra said today.

The right to franchise has been guaranteed by the Indian constitution to all citizens. Hence, bonafide voters of Puri district must exercise their fundamental right during the simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha and Legislative Assembly, the District Electoral Officer and Collector Siddharth Shankar Swain appealed.

The hoteliers' outfit here went a step forward and announced the offer to encourage local voters.

"Hotel association...