AGRA: Standing in a queue along with their parents at polling stations, young kids aspire to become voters. Curious to understand the electoral process first hand, they question their parents as they press buttons to cast vote, while the young ones watch them inquisitively.Crazy about video games which is all about pressing buttons, six-year-old Shiven Sarabhoy and his friend Shivansh Paliwal enquires their parents, "Why can't we vote to choose leader, pressing buttons is a piece of cake for us?"Replying with a smile on the innocent question of the two, Vivek Sarabhoy, a senior lawyer in district court, explained "You need to learn a lot before playing this complicated game of pressing buttons to choose leader."Not satisfied with the answers the two insisted their parents to take them near EVM machine in polling booth. Though hesitant to allow small kids near the voting machine, polling officer asked the two not to touch anything but to observe their parents when they vote. After observing the voting ritual they even got the finger inked at the polling station.Like the two, Ankita Aswaani the nine year-old who studies in fourth grade, was quick to identify various symbols of major parties and name them. She came along with her parents.Talking to TOI, Ankita's father, Harish Kumar Aswaani, a local businessman said, "In order to educate my children about the whole election process, I decided to bring them along and let them see what happens at polling booths.""My elder son has polled his vote for the first time, while my daughter has to wait for at least nine more years to cast her vote," he said.

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