Key Points
Bengaluru, a prominent global tech hub, driving about a third of Indias software exports, is home to more than 3,500 IT companies and 79 tech parks..
Techies from all over India have made the city their home..
Far from being outsiders, many of them have enrolled as voters in the city, like Richa Gupta, 39, who works for Philips..
I vote in every election here, she said.. Kushal Kumar, who works for semiconductor manufacturer Marvell, has been in Bengaluru for eight years and voted in his second election on Wednesday..
It is important to vote here, because our lives are here.. While tech companies have begun calling employees back to the office full time, a few firms are yet to catch up on the trend.Some booths in the tech hub saw a below average turnout, as voters had stillnot returned to the city..
