{"id":34258,"date":"2024-04-24T11:22:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T11:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/rapido-to-offer-free-rides-to-senior-citizens-differently-abled-voters-in-karnataka\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T11:22:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T11:22:05","slug":"rapido-to-offer-free-rides-to-senior-citizens-differently-abled-voters-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/rapido-to-offer-free-rides-to-senior-citizens-differently-abled-voters-in-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapido to offer free rides to senior citizens, differently-abled voters in Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109562169,imgsize-135390.cms?resize=1920,1280&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rapido to offer free rides to senior citizens, differently-abled voters in Karnataka\" title=\"Rapido to offer free rides to senior citizens, differently-abled voters in Karnataka\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"4\"><a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/new-delhi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Delhi<\/a>: <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ride-hailing-platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ride-hailing platform<\/a> Rapido on Wednesday pledged to offer free <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bike-taxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bike taxi<\/a>, <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/auto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auto<\/a>, and <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/cab-rides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cab rides<\/a> to differently-abled and senior citizen voters in <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/karnataka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karnataka<\/a> as part of its &#8220;SawaariZimmedariKi&#8221; initiative. Voters in Bengaluru, Mysuru, and Mangaluru would be able to avail free rides to and fro voting points on April 26 by using the code &#8216;VOTENOW&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In collaboration with the Election Commission of India (ECI) and Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rapido\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rapido<\/a> sets forth to champion civic engagement during the General Elections 2024 by extending free auto and cab rides to differently-abled and senior citizen voters in Bengaluru,&#8221; Rapido said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p> Rapido&#8217;s Co-founder Pavan Guntupalli said the move is to ensure that differently-abled, and senior citizen voters have equitable access to exercise their democratic rights.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/rapido-to-offer-free-rides-to-senior-citizens-differently-abled-voters-in-karnataka\/articleshow\/109562169.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Ride-hailing platform Rapido on Wednesday pledged to offer free bike taxi, auto, and cab rides to differently-abled and senior citizen voters in Karnataka as part of its &#8220;SawaariZimmedariKi&#8221; initiative. Voters in Bengaluru, Mysuru, and Mangaluru would be able to avail free rides to and fro voting points on April 26 by using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109562169,imgsize-135390.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[10217,37751,37752,6243,37748,37753,508,5265,21691,3626,27251,37750,37749,18088,10650,26033,3456],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34260,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34258\/revisions\/34260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}