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Regional Commissioner and Returning Officer for the elections to the Karnataka West Graduates Constituency Amlan Aditya Biswas has stated that it was mandatory for candidates and representatives of varied political events to strictly comply with the mannequin code of conduct and in addition the COVID-19 advisory issued by the Election Commission of India.
Speaking at a gathering of candidates contesting the elections and representatives of political events in Dharwad on Tuesday, Mr. Biswas stated that it was the responsibility of everybody to guarantee free and truthful elections and to see that the method is gone by in a clear method.
He instructed them that steps had been taken for issuing permission for public campaigning, automobiles, publicity materials and others on the respective Deputy Commissioner places of work in Dharwad, Haveri, Gadag and Uttara Kannada districts. Political events and candidates might get the requisite permission for campaigning and associated points within the 4 districts from the Deputy Commissioners who have been additionally Assistant Returning Officers, he stated.
He clarified that solely a specified variety of folks ought to go on door-to-door campaigning and that solely a specified variety of folks could be required to take part in indoor conferences. Use of masks, sanitisers and adherence to social distancing norms have been mandatory, he stated.
Flying squads
Mr. Biswaas stated that to forestall any kind of election malpractices and violations of mannequin poll code of conduct, three flying squads had been constituted for every one of many legislative Assembly segments within the Legislative Council constituency.
The common public can the helpline Ph: 1077 for registering complaints concerning violations of poll code and for giving different info. For every other criticism concerning violations and malpractices, Chief Executive Officer of the Dharwad Zilla Panchayat (Ph: 9480864000) or the Assistant Commissioner (Ph: 9731008189) could possibly be contacted. Complainants or informers are required to present their names, tackle and phone numbers, he stated.
146 polling cubicles
Mr. Biswas stated {that a} complete 146 polling cubicles have been being arrange within the constituency and every one of many cubicles would have well being workers, safety workers and poll officers and workers. “It is mandatory for voters to wear masks and their health condition would be checked as per COVID-19 advisory. Voters with symptoms of cough and fever will be given time during the last one hour of the polling to exercise their franchise,” he stated.
Route map
He stated that steps had been taken to ship voter slips to the voters and it had additionally been deliberate to present info on COVID-19 advisory and polling particulars. This aside, they have been planning to present route map of polling stations to voters utilizing cellular functions with the permission of the Election Commission of India, he stated.
Clarifying that there was no restrict on poll expenditure for the Council polls, he stated that the Election Commission had, nonetheless, requested them to monitor publicity materials, public campaigning and different associated points.
Any violation of the poll code and pointers could be handled strictly, particularly in circumstances of misuse of permission, objectionable feedback in opposition to communities and spreading faux information, he stated. Assistant Returning Officer and Deputy Commissioner Nitesh Patil, Nodal Officer for Model Code of Conduct Susheela, Assistant Commissioner B. Gopalkrishna and different officers have been current.
75,774 voters
There are a complete of 75,774 eligible voters, together with 48,580 male and 27,183 feminine and 11 of the third gender. Dharwad district has 22,646 voters, Gadag 16,013, Haveri 23,888 and Uttara Kannada 13,227 voters.
11 candidates
There are actually 11 candidates within the fray for the council polls. None of them whose candidature was declared legitimate after scrutiny, withdrew their nomination papers earlier than the deadline ended on Monday leaving all of them within the fray.
They are: R.M. Kuberappa (INC), Shivashankar Kallur (JD-S), S.V. Sankanur (BJP), Shivaraj Kamble (Karnataka Rashra Samiti), Somashekhar Umrani (Shiv Sena) and Independents Dasharath Chandrahas Rangareddy, B.D. Hiregoudar, Basavaraj Gurikar, Basavaraj N. Teradal, Mohammed Shafiuddin S. Nagarkatti and Shivakumar Talawar.
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