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Counting of votes today for karnataka Panchayat election 2015
Celebration galore as GP election results announced
As the results of GP election started coming out, the workers of the victorious parties started celebrating near Padua high school where the counting is going on.
181 candidates emerged winners in Dakshina Kannada district after the first round of counting. . Meenakshi of Minnabettu ward number 1 was one of the first to be declared winner.
Mangaluru/Udupi: Gram panchayat polls - Counting begins
Counting of the two-phase gram panchayat (GP) polls held on May 29 and June 2 in the state, which is being touted as litmus test for both the Congress, which has completed a year in the office in the state, and BJP, which came to power at the centre a year back, began on Friday June 5 amidst heavy security. The results, which will decide who will call the shots in the GP administration for the next five years, are expected to be out by the evening.
After the first round of counting, 181 candidates emerged winners in Dakshina Kannada district. Interestingly, in Kilapdy under Mulky, Shanta, backed by BJP won against her daughter-in-law Mallika who was backed by Congress. Shanta garnered 266 votes while Mallika got 257 votes.
After two rounds of counting,
in Haleangady Congress won 6 out of 22 seats while BJP bagged one,
in Chembral, Congress-supported candidates won 3 out of 17 seats while 4 went to BJP-backed candidates,
in Padu Panambur, BJP won 16 out of 9 seats,
in Mennabettu, four out of 11 seats went to BJP-backed candidates,
in Kinnigoli BJP won 6 out of 21 seats
while in Kilpady, 3 out of 9 seats went to BJP.
In the newly-formed Athikatibettu, 6 out of 10 seats went to Congress, while in Baikunje, BJP won 4 out of 12 seats, and in Aikala, BJP bagged 6 out of 14 seats. The results for the rest of the wards are awaited.
In Beltangady taluk, after two rounds of counting BJP-backed candidates won all the seats in Shibaje and Kalamanja, while Congress-backed candidates won all the seats in Hosangadi. In Padavettu, Congress-backed candidates won 5 seats, against BJP's 4 seats.
Even as results of the first round of counting started trickling out, celebrations began in various parts, despite the police imposing Sec 144.
Vote count today
The district administration has made all arrangements for the counting for the gram panchayat elections. It begin from 8 a.m. on Friday. Addressing a press conference at Darbar High School, where the counting is held for Vijayapura taluk, Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep said that the political future of 9,101 candidates would be announced by Friday evening.
“Since ballot papers have been used in the election, the counting would take a longer time, thus we expect the final results would be out only before midnight,” he said.
He said that except Basavanabagewadi taluk, the counting will be held in three rounds in other the four taluks. Only two rounds will be conducted in Basavanabagewadi taluk. Each round may last between three and four hours, he said. The official said that the election was held for 206 GPs which have a total of 3,958 wards.
Mr. Randeep said that the district administration has deployed 1,709 officials for counting duty. They include 518 counting supervisors, 1,036 counting assistants and 155 reserved staff.
He said that inside the counting halls, only election officials and journalists have been allowed to take mobile phones. Prohibitory orders under section 144 of the IPC would remain imposed in the rural areas for two. Victory celebrations have also been banned for two days, he said.
Absent
“We had deployed nearly 5,000 employees of different departments and we have found that nearly 250 of them did not report on duty without any intimation,” said the Deputy Commissioner. Disciplinary action would be taken against these absentee officials, he said.
The trouble is apparently waiting for officials who remained absent for polling duty without intimation or without availing permission.
“We have deployed nearly 5,000 employees of different departments and we have found that nearly 250 of them did not report on duty without any intimation,” said Deputy Commissioner D. Randeep. He told press persons here on Thursday that after the counting of votes, disciplinary action would be taken against these absentee officials.