Three-and-a-half months after landslides tore apart their villages and killed at least 250 of their friends and family members, the surviving voters of Chooralmala and Mundakkai met each other again in the polling booths for the bypoll in Wayanad parliamentary constituency on Wednesday in an atmosphere filled with tears, smiles and hugs. Voters get their photos clicked at a selfie booth after casting their votes for Wayanad Lok Sabha by-elections, on Wednesday. (ANI) For the residents of Chooralmala and Attamala in Meppadi panchayat, a special polling booth was set up inside the auditorium of the St Sebastian Church in Chooralmala. For voters of Mundakkai, another booth was set up at the government higher secondary school in Meppadi town. Officials familiar with the matter said that special services of KSRTC buses were deployed to ferry those who survived the landslides to the polling centres. The buses were arranged since most of them had lost their homes in the tragedy and have been temporarily rehabilitated in rental homes and government quarters, far away from the affected villages. …