Mysore/Mysuru: Member of the erstwhile Mysore Royal Family Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar who is in the fray in recently concluded Lok Sabha elections as BJP candidate from Mysuru-Kodagu Constituency had both sweet and bitter experiences during the campaign trail. Speaking to media persons at his office in Kuvempunagar on Saturday, Yaduveer who is in a…
Will score easy victory: Congress candidate M. Lakshmana
April 28, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: M. Lakshmana, Congress candidate in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election from Mysuru-Kodagu Constituency is confident of scoring an easy victory. He was addressing media persons at Indira Gandhi Congress Bhavan on JLB road in the city on Saturday. “I am confident of emerging victorious as I sought votes purely on development works, without…
Polling booth vandalising case: 25 accused arrested
April 28, 2024Re-polling at Indiganatha village tomorrow Mysore/Mysuru: The Election Commission has ordered re-polling in Indiganatha village at Hanur taluk in Chamarajanagar district, after the polling booth was vandalised by villagers who had boycotted the elections. The re-polling in booth no. 146 at the village will be held tomorrow (Apr. 29) from 7 am to 6 pm….
HDK, ‘Star’ Chandru in relax mood
April 28, 2024Mandya: Former Chief Minister and Janata Dal (Secular)-BJP coalition candidate H.D. Kumaraswamy and his Congress rival Venkataramane Gowda (Star Chandru) have gone into a relax mood, after the conclusion of Lok Sabha election in Mandya Constituency on Friday. For the last one month, both the candidates were involved in hectic campaigning taking out road shows,…
Transgenders show little interest in voting
April 28, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: It seems that transgenders have shown little interest in voting, going by the numbers they have voted in the LS polls from Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha constituency held on Friday. There were 184 trangender voters who have been classified as ‘others’ category in Mysuru-Kodagu LS seat. Also these voters were issued voter ID cards. But…
Three-tier security for EVMs
April 27, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Security for the strong rooms storing Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and the VVPAT systems (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) will be organised in three tiers. Armed personnel from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), specially deployed for this purpose, will assume control over the counting centre security. It may be mentioned here that the…
More than 2,700 voters exercise franchise even after polling ends at 6 pm
April 27, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: Coming to the aid of voters just in time, the District Administration allowed as many as 2,749 such voters in Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha Constituency to exercise their franchise who came rushing to the polling booths, to cast their votes even after the deadline ended at 6 pm yesterday. The Election Commission had set 7…
Mysuru-Kodagu LS Constituency records 71% polling
April 27, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: The Mysuru-Kodagu Lok Sabha Constituency has recorded 71 percent poll percentage in the polls held yesterday, with the District Administration revising the figure this afternoon after collation of figures from all polling booths in each of the eight Assembly segments of the Constituency. According to the revised figure, Periyapatna Assembly segment recorded the highest…
Irate villagers ransack polling booth in Hanur, pelt stones
April 27, 2024Hanur: A section of villagers who had boycotted to vote in Chamarajanagar (SC Reserve) Lok Sabha Constituency that went to polling in the first phase of elections held yesterday, went on a rampage, damaging the polling booth at Indiganaththa village in the fringes of Male Mahadeshwara Hills forest in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar district. The…
Officials dressed in special attires attract voters
April 27, 2024Mysore/Mysuru: While the top women officers including Deputy Commissioner and District Electoral Officer created voting awareness in Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha Constituency created in a unique way by draping a specially ordered hand woven silk sarees with a message requesting the voters to cast their franchise, the officials at various polling booths in Nanjangud coming under…
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