Second phase of municipal elections on July 8

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JUNE 30. The 4,70,865 voters in the Byatarayanapura, Dasarahalli, Pattanagere and Bommanahalli city municipal councils, and those in the Kengeri Town Municipality,

who have witnessed discernible development of civic facilities in their areas, will elect new teams of councillors in the second phase of the local body elections on July 8. The polling will be held between 7 a.m and 5 p.m. on that day.

Speaking to presspersons here today, the Bangalore Urban District Deputy Commissioner, Mr. D.S.Aswath, said that the district administration was geared up to conduct peaceful polls in 151 wards of the five local bodies. There were 2,62,982 men and 2,07,883 women, who would cast their votes in 523 polling booths. An equal number of presiding officers and `D' class employees, apart from 1,569 polling officers would be named. Senior officials from the local bodies and police officials were present at the press conference.

He said the booths were so arranged that none would have more than 1,200 voters, and no voter would ever need to walk for more than one km. to cast his vote. The authorities had been instructed to post anganavadi workers to identify women voters, if needed.

Mr. Aswath said that to ensure effective supervision, 17 KAS officers (grade I and grade II) had been appointed as Returning Officers and Assistant Returning Officers for the four CMCs. For the Kengeri Town Municipality, the Headquarters Assistant in the DC's office and the Special Tahsildar would be the Returning Officers.

He said that helpline centres with telephone numbers had been set up at eight places to help the public to obtain any information from the election officers--Bommanahalli and Pattanagere CMCs and Kengeri Town Municipality (shirastedar): 2213187: Dasarahalli CMC (shirastedar): 2232526; Byatarayanapura CMC (shirastedar): 8560763 and (manager) :3636677; Bommanahalli CMC (manager): 5732447; Pattanagere CMC (manager): 8601851; Dasarahalli CMC (manager): 8394909; and Kengeri TMC: 8484216.

Mr. Aswath said that as a special measure, one officer would visit eight booths for collecting information on July 8. The sale of liquor was banned in the limits of all these local bodies from 12 p.m. on July 6 to 6 a.m. on July 10. The counting of ballots would commence at 8 a.m on July 9 at the B.E.L.School, Jalahalli for Byatarayanapura and Dasarahalli CMCs, the Government High School, Agara for Bommahalli CMC; the Rajarajeswari School for Pattanagere; and the Kengeri Educational Institution, Kengeri for the Kengeri TMC.

The number of candidates in the fray: Congress: 151, BJP: 134, BSP: 14, JD (U): 28, JD (S): 112, CPI (M): eight and independents: 364.

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