No compromise on security arrangements, says SP
The Hindu
THOOTHUKUDI
Police personnel, home guards and the ex-servicemen, who are involved in poll-related security arrangements, should strictly follow the instructions of the state election commission to ensure free and fair election, Superintendent of Police S. Jayakumar has said.
Addressing the meeting held here on Tuesday for the policemen and the officers, Mr. Jayakumar said those who would be deployed in the 750 polling booths across the district for the ward elections of a Corporation, 3 municipalities and 17 town panchayats should scrupulously follow the instructions of the SEC. Any compromise in ensuring poll-related security arrangements would be viewed very seriously as it would disrupt the election.
Leaders and legislators hailing from Ballari, which is part of the Kalyana Karnataka region, seem to be a source of much political upheaval in Karnataka, going by recent history. This has been the case since the time illegal mining hit national and international headlines in the 2000s and the place gained reputation as “Republic of Ballari”.
The former BJP MLA of Udupi K. Raghupathi Bhat claimed on Saturday that he contesting the Legislative Council elections from South West Graduates’ Constituency as rebel candidate made the saffron party field its party leader C. T. Ravi in the biennial elections to the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly.