Delhi polls: Over 1,500 sex workers to cast their votes

Rukshana, a sex worker for over nine years, said: "Now our votes shall also matter."

Another sex worker, Sofia told IANS that she will not give her vote to those politicians who had "ignored" them .

"We all will vote but only for the person who will fulfill our long-pending demands," Munni Begum, president of G.B. Road Sex Workers Association, told IANS.

The sex workers are grateful to the administration for providing them with voter ID cards, Aadhar cards and Below Poverty Level (BPL) cards.

But, they reiterated their long-pending demand of legalizing prostitution.

"Give us licenses and mark the areas for us. If any one of us is ready to go out of this profession, she should be provided work to live in the society. If somebody wants to earn her livelihood by selling her body why should it not be allowed?," Nasreen Begum told IANS.

"It will help in checking human trafficking as it will help the authorities to clearly define a sex worker," she said.

Some other sex workers demanded old age homes or hostels for those sex workers who are older in years and fail to get clients.