Bill allowing proxy voting rights to NRIs tabled in Lok Sabha A bill seeking to extend the facility of ‘proxy voting’ to overseas Indians, on the lines of service voters, was introduced in the Lok Sabh Non-resident Indians (NRIs) who are registered voters in the country could soon exercise their franchise in elections held in India through a proxy while staying abroad as the government introduced a bill in Parliament in this regard on Monday. Amid the din from opposition benches on Monday, law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad introduced the bill in Lok Sabha to amend the Representation of the People Act, the law that governs elections in India, to allow proxy voting to overseas Indians. Under the current rules, overseas electors have to cast votes in person at specified polling booths in their constituencies in India. “The said rules stipulate the physical presence of the overseas electors in the respective polling station in India on the day of the polling. This causes hardship