Assembly poll: EC announces dates for Jayanagar, RR Nagar segments
Bengaluru, May 17: The Election Commission has announced the dates for the election to Jayanagar and RR Nagar constituencies in Bengaluru which was postponed earlier.
As BJP candidate BN Vijay Kumar contested from Jayanagar was died, the polling which was supposed to be held on May 12 was postponed. Now, the EC has announced the dates for the poll. Nomination papers could be filed for the constituency from May 18 and May 25 is the last date for withdrawing the papers. Election would be conducted on June 11.
However, the election for the RR Nagar constituency was also postponed as thousands of voter IDs were found in an apartment. Now, the election would be held for this constituency on June 28 and counting would be held on June 12.
Interestingly, the BJP which has been facing shortage of numbers to prove its majority, is making strategies to win these two seats.
Candidates
For Jayanagar constituency, the names of MLC Tara Anuradha, former mayor SK Nataraj and former BBMP corporator CK Ramamurthy are floating in the BJP.
In the Congress, former Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Soumya Reddy is trying for the ticket and activist Ravikrishna Reddy is planning to contest as an independent candidate. However, in RR Nagar constituency, Muniratna from Congress, Tulasi Muniraju Gowda from BJP and Ramachandra from JDS who have already filed their nominations would continue as candidates.
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Gujarat man held for impersonating govt official, duping people with forged letters
Ahmedabad (PTI): The Ahmedabad police have arrested a 29-year-old man who allegedly posed as a senior revenue official and used fake letters claiming to be from various government departments to cheat people, an official said on Sunday.
Mehul Shah, an engineer who manages two schools at Vankaner in Gujarat’s Morbi district, is accused of making lakhs of rupees with bogus documents and false claims, said inspector (crime branch) JK Makwana.
Shah had forged an appointment letter from the Ahmedabad district education officer (DEO) to offer a computer operator’s job in a government office to a complainant’s son. He also introduced himself as a trustee of a school and did not pay a man Rs 7 lakh due to him over the painting of a school building, the official said.
“Despite holding no official position in the state or central government, he used fake work permits and NOCs to cheat people of lakhs of rupees,” the police official said.
One complainant alleged that Shah identified himself as a top revenue department official and produced a fake letter from the chairman of the “department of science and research development” to make him install a siren and curtain in a hired vehicle but did not pay for the job, he said.
Bogus letters claiming to be from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ahmedabad DEO were used by the accused to cheat the complainants, the police official said.
Police have recovered from his possession fake identity cards and letters with headings like “bharat gaurav ratna shri samman council”, “chairman of department of science and research development”, “health and family welfare department”, and “road and building department”.
“The FIR is based on complaints by three victims. We appeal to the people to come forward and submit their complaints if they have been cheated by Shah in any way,” Makwana said.
