The chief electoral officer said that apart from the elector’s photo identity card (EPIC), the election commission has approved 12 other documents for exercising one’s franchise.
The documents included are Aadhaar card, MNREGA job card, passbook with a photograph issued by a bank/post office, health insurance smart card issued under the scheme of the ministry of labour, driving licence, PAN card, smart card issued by RGI under NPR, Indian passport, pension document with a photograph, service identity card with a photograph issued to employees by central/state govt/public sector undertakings/public limited companies, official identity cards issued to MPs and MLAs and unique disability ID (UDID) issued by govt.
Voting for 26 Lok Sabha seats and 5 assembly seats will be held on May 7 in Gujarat.