2016 Kerala Assembly Elections - Centenarian Thressiamma Chacko To Be Poll Mascot In in Kerala's Kannur district.

Centenarian Thressiamma, who is living with her son Johny, had applied for voters' identity card at an Akshaya centre, a project focusing on the various facts of e-learning and e-governance, at Kolakkad recently.

District Collector P Bala Kiran himself arrived at her residence and handed over her the voter identity card last evening.

"She is very active even at this age and really enthusiastic to exercise her franchise. She will be an inspiration to all voters to exercise their franchise in the upcoming polls," Bala Kiran told

The district administration officials also gave the woman some lessons on how to use the voting machine.

The woman told officials that she had no time to think about polls or casting vote during her young age as she had been struggling to meet both ends of her family.

She would cast the vote at the polling booth in a local school near her house

Centenarian Thressiamma Chacko will vote for the first time on May 16,2016