Fishermen turn out in huge numbers to vote in Shiyal Bet

An island off Amreli coast, Shiyal Bet has 4,155 voters with a population of nearly 10,000. Long queues were witnessed since early morning at the five polling booths set up by the Election Commission on the island. "We called back those fishermen who had gone for fishing and those who were here were asked to stay back only to cast their vote," said Hamir Shiyal, sarpanch of Shiyal Bet. The fishermen here work on nearly 700 boats of Jafrabad town.