BENGALURU: A complete of three,044 validly nominated candidates are within the fray for the May 10 Assembly polls in Karnataka, after their nominations have been discovered to be so as in the course of the scrutiny by electoral officers. This, nevertheless, is excluding 5 Assembly segments, because the scrutiny in Savadatti-Yellamma, Aurad, Haveri (SC), Raichur and Shivajinagar constituencies just isn’t but accomplished, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Karnataka mentioned in a launch on Friday.
According to official sources, the nomination of state Congress President D Ok Shivakumar, who had expressed apprehensions about the opportunity of his papers getting rejected, has been accepted. This comes after the Congress state chief claimed that the BJP’s IT cell was vetting his affidavit. “My nomination is in order. But there was information that the BJP’s IT cell was examining my nomination papers. There’s a conspiracy to misuse the official machinery,” Shivakumar mentioned earlier than the scrutiny of paperwork started on Friday.
Out of the three,044 validly nominated candidates — 219 are from BJP, 218 Congress, 207 from JD(S), whereas the remainder are all from small events and Independents, in accordance with the CEO’s workplace. A complete of 4,989 nominations have been obtained from these candidates. The final date for the withdrawal of candidatures is April 24.
In a shock transfer, hours earlier than the deadline for submitting nomination on April 20, Congress MP from Bangalore Rural D Ok Suresh on Thursday had filed nomination from Kanakapura section, from the place his elder brother Shivakumar is the get together’s candidate. Suresh has filed his papers as a “backup plan” within the occasion of Shivakumar’s nomination getting rejected.
They had alleged {that a} conspiracy was being hatched by the ruling BJP to reject Shivakumar’s nomination. He had on Thursday claimed that 5,000 folks have downloaded his belongings record (which was a part of his nomination affidavit).
