New Delhi: IT industry veteran NR Narayana Murthy and his wife Sudha Murty were among the early voters who cast their ballot in the Karnataka Assembly polls on Wednesday. Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty voted at Jayanagar in Bengaluru, where Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also voted.

Urging people to come out and vote, Sudha Murty said, “I will not ask you who you will vote for or why you vote, because everyone has their own opinion and decision, but everyone should vote. We vote in every election.”

She said that she always tells the youth to come and vote because then they have the power to talk.

“Without voting you do not have any power to talk,” she said.

On people who ‘go out’ without voting, she said that only those who don’t have patriotism, do such things. 

“Please look at us. We are oldies but we get up at 6 o’clock, come here and vote. Please learn from us. Voting is a sacred part of democracy…,” she added.

Infosys founder Narayana Murthy said that it is the responsibility of the elders to sit down with youngsters and advise them why voting is important. 

“That’s what my parents did,” he told reporters.