Karnataka assembly election process starts from April 17

Team Udayavani, Apr 17, 2018, 12:32 PM IST

Bengaluru: Documenting of nominations for the upcoming get together race will start from today. As parties will begin issuing B structures and candidates start to hand over nomination papers, the office of the state chief election commissioner has made elaborate preparations under the guidance of Central Election Commission.

The authorities have made courses of action to get nomination papers, scrutinize them, and allow withdrawals thereof. The commission has trained the officials about the legal intricacies of filing of nominations, how to discover arrangements if there should be an occurrence of lawful entanglements, convention to be trailed by candidates documenting nomination, and ventures to be taken by the authorities tolerating assignment papers and so on. The commission has obviously advised the discretionary authorities not to offer ascent to confusions. 

April 24 will be the last date for recording of nominations. Nominations papers can be documented on all working days with the exception of occasions, from 11 am to 3 pm. The commission, which was occupied with changing voters list, conveying of election staff, giving preparing and making mindfulness among voters, has now started to focus on nominations, election battles by parties and candidates, consistence with set of principles, overseeing of peace circumstance and guaranteeing smooth polling. 

The nominations will be examined on April 25, and April 27 is the last day for withdrawal of nominations. Polling will happen on May 12, including of votes will be on May 15, and the whole assembly election process will finish up on May 18 according to the schedule reported by the commission. 

Congress, which has released the list of 218 candidates until this point, and BJP, which brought out two records containing 154 names, will battle in the race. JD(S), which released list of 125 candidates in February itself, is yet to turn out with names of different candidates. 

Congress, BJP and JD(S) have likewise started the undertaking of issuance of B forms to competitors. It is said that Congress will start issuance of B forms in a resort in the outskirts of the city from Tuesday.