December 9 is last date for filing objections to draft voter roll in Graduates Constituency

Kalaburagi voter enrolment officer says 1.4 lakh eligible graduates enrolled in voter list. Draft roll published, objections can be filed till Dec 9. Kalaburagi tops with 35,846 enrolments, Koppal lowest with 12,471. 934 applications rejected in Kalaburagi, 41 polling stations identified. Graduates can enroll till nomination papers deadline.

Regional Commissioner (Kalaburagi Division) and voter enrolment officer for Northeastern Graduates Constituency of the Legislative Council Krishna Krishna Bajpai has said that the electoral rolls for the constituency was published on Wednesday and objections to it can be filed before December 9.

Addressing a media conference at his office in Kalaburagi on Thursday, he said that there are 1,40,423 eligible graduates (89,162 male, 51,241 female and 20 others) in the constituency who have enrolled themselves in the voter list.

“We received 1,42,928 applications in Form 18. And, 1,40,423 of them have been accepted, while 2,452 were rejected for various reasons. We published the draft roll on Thursday and it is available in the offices of the Deputy Commissioners, Tahsildars and City Corporations and on the website of the Chief Election Officer of the State (www.ceo.karnataka.gov.in). People can file objections before December 9. After disposing of the objections before December 25, the final roll will be published on December 30,” he said.

As per information he provided, Kalaburagi district is on the top with 35,846 enrolments (21,197 male, 14,644 female and five others) and Koppal at the bottom with 12,471 (8,328 male and 4,143 female) enrolments.

There are 25,489 voters (15,829 male and 9,660 female) in Bidar, 17,723 (11,061 male, 6,658 female) in Ballari district), 18,366 (12,285 male, 6,076 female and five others) in Raichur district, 14,295 (9,896 male, 4,395 female and four others) in Yadgir district and 16,233 (10,566 male, 5,665 female and two others) in Vijayanagara district in the draft electoral rolls.

Kalaburagi is top in the number of applications rejected (934) and Koppal is at the bottom with 42.

“We have taken up a special campaign to spread awareness among graduates to enrol themselves in the electoral rolls and participate in the election process. The tenure of the current member elected from the Northeastern Graduate Constituency of the Legislative Council will end by June 2024. Eligible graduates have an opportunity to enroll themselves in the electoral rolls till the last date for filing nomination papers. During the 2017 elections in the constituency, there were 45,800 voters in the draft rolls and 45,800 voters in the final rolls. We expect that the number of electors will reach 2.5 lakh by the time elections are held this time,” Mr. Bajpai said.