Karnataka Gram Panchayat Election: GP polls to be held for 5,043 seats on June 2 in Tumakuru, 2nd Phase of Karnataka Gram Panchayat Election, Karnataka election News updates, Karnataka political News

Karnataka Gram Panchayat Election: GP polls to be held for 5,043 seats on June 2 in Tumakuru

754 polling booths have been identified as sensitive and 517 as hyper-sensitive out of 2,468 polling booths by Deputy Commissioner, K.S.Sathya Murthy in Tumakuru district.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Mr. Sathya Murthy said that polling will be held on June 2 for 330 Gram Panchayats for 5,043 seats in Tumakuru district.

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No takers for 901 Gram Panchayat seats

8,687 candidates to be elected unopposed
A total of 8,687 candidates are all set to be elected unopposed in the forthcoming gram panchayat elections.
State Election Commissioner P.N. Srinivasachari told presspersons here on Wednesday that 901 seats will remain vacant as no nominations had been filed.
Admitting that residents of several districts, including Kolar, Chamarajanagar, Chikkamagaluru, and North Karnataka, had boycotted the polls, he said it was either because of lack of basic amenities, particularly drinking water, or a demand to upgrade the existing gram panchayats into town panchayats.
“The seats that have been boycotted will go uncontested. We will subsequently conduct polls in these places too,” he said.

The commission has made elaborate arrangements for the smooth conduct of the two-phased polls on May 29 and June 2. “We will begin mustering for the first phase on Thursday and the ballot boxes and other election paraphernalia will be handed over to the designated poll officers on the same day. Polling will be held between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on May 29,” Mr. Srinivasachari said.

On the reported auctioning of seats in some villages, he said this had been reported only in a few gram panchayats. “We had instructed the Deputy Commissioners to conduct a probe. However, when the officers went to those areas, none came forward to give a complaint. We will have to consider these seats as elected unopposed,” he said.

In numbers
The polls in numbers
Total number of contestants – 2,33,493
Members to be elected unopposed – 8,687
Seats left vacant due to non-submission of nominations – 901
Number of polling stations – 37,754
Sensitive polling stations – 8515
Hypersensitive polling stations – 6167
Total voters – 2,78,50,874
Male voters – 1,41,80,139
Women voters – 1,36,70,735
Total polling staff – 188770
Police force deployed for bandobast – 39,891
Additional reserve police force – 582
Home guards – 18,879
Poll timings – 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Karnataka Gram Panchayat Election: 3,272 GPs Go to Polls Today

BENGALURU: Voters in 15 districts will choose their local governments on Friday as 3,272 gram panchayats go to polls in the first phase, with over 1.2 lakh candidates in fray.

Elections for the remaining 2,801 gram panchayats will be held on June 2.

These grassroot-level elections are expected to see a record turnout as voting has been made mandatory for the first time in the state, though there is no punitive action for those who do not vote.

In the run-up to the elections, a hectic and fiery campaigning was witnessed in all gram panchayats with candidates leaving no stone unturned to woo the voters.  Unlike Assembly and Parliament elections, there is no cap on expenditure by candidates in the GP polls, and money and liquor were flowing freely during the campaign.

The reason for such a fierce fight is attributed to the huge funds that are being pumped directly to the local governments under various schemes like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

“Unlike in the past, gram panchayats are getting huge funds now. So there is a huge scope for the GP members to make best use of these funds and bring a visible change in their villages. But unfortunately people with such intentions are very few,” said a senior Congress leader while refusing to be named.

Though these elections are supposed to be apolitical, all the three major political  parties of the state actively participated in the campaigning as a majority of the candidates are workers of these political parties.

Mysuru, Chikkamagaluru, Dakshina Kannada, Hassan, Kodagu, Mandya, Chamarajnagar, Udupi, Belagavi, Vijayapura, Haveri, Bagalkot, Uttara Kannada, Dharwad and Gadag districts will go to polls on Friday in the first phase.

Candidate Murdered: A GP election candidate was murdered by miscreants on KGF-Mulabagal Road on Thursday. Subramani (36) was contesting from Balla. Personal enmity is suspected to be the reason.

ELECTION SNIPPETS

1> The elections to the lowest strata of the democracy has thrown up some interesting and unusual fights. Express lists out some of them.

2> Personal animosity has forced Vijayapura Zilla Panchayat member Sunanda Valikar to contest GP elections. She is taking on the second wife of her husband Yallavva Valikar in Tadavalaga village in Indi taluk.

3> Interestingly, two more relatives of Sunanda are also in the fray from the same ward

Several seats in a few GPs in Kudligi taluk in Ballari district have reportedly been auctioned for huge sums. The money so collected will be utilised for renovation of temples

4> Shivalingappa Gowda, an M.Tech graduate and a assistant professor at an engineering college, is contesting elections from Yallambalase GP in Kadur taluk in Chikkamagaluru district

5> GP elections have been boycotted by Kolagunda and Undiganalu villagers demanding filling of all tanks in Javagal Hobli in Hassan district

6> Tidigol GP in Raichur district has not seen any contest for 25 years as members are being elected unopposed

7> 91-year-old Timmaiah of Gandabommanahalli village in Kudligi taluk in Ballari is contesting the election

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No special brushes to ink gram panchayat poll voters

MYSURU: The election commission is using the old plastic applicator instead of special brush to mark indelible ink on voters during the upcoming Gram Panchayat (GP) polls in the state. The special brushes were used in the recent assembly elections in New Delhi to mark the ink on voters.

The Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited (MPVL) has supplied 90,000 bottles of indelible ink worth Rs 1.10 crore to the State Election Commission (EC). Each 5 ml ink bottle costs around Rs 90 and can be applied to nearly 300 to 400 voters.

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