Jayanagar constituency to go for voting tomorrow
Assembly Election
Bengaluru, June 10: The Jayanagar assembly constituency, which created a tough competition between the Congress-JDS coalition government and the BJP, will go for voting on June 11. The Election Commission has made all preparations to conduct voting from 7 am to 6 pm.
The election to the constituency was postponed as BJP candidate died before the election. Now, total 19 candidates including BN Prahlad Babu from BJP, Soumya Reddy from Congress, independent candidate Ravi Krishna Reddy and others are in the fray. Total 216 polling stations were set up in the constituency, for which 1400 polling staff were deputed. Among them, 50 polling stations were given web-casting facility and 15 were given videography facility. Total 29 officers were appointed as divisional officers to oversee the polling stations.
The constituency has total number of 2,03,184 voters and pink polling booths were set up in five places where women voters are more. After the formation of the coalition government, the JDS candidate Kale Gowda has withdrawn his papers paving way for Congress candidate Soumya Reddy.
Meanwhile, it is said that there is a triangular fight between Congress, BJP and independent candidate Ravi Krishna Reddy who has been fighting against corruption and election malpractices. So, Jayanagar election has created more curiosity.
Already, the Election Commission has imposed prohibitory order under Section 144 in the constituency. Liquor sale was completely banned and police security is beefed up throughout the constituency.
Counting of votes on June 13
Counting of votes would be held on June 13. All preparations were made to count the votes at SSMRV College at Jayanagar 4th Block. The counting will be held from 8 am and the result will be out by afternoon.
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Israeli police make arrests after flares fired at prime minister's private residence
Tel Aviv (AP): Israeli police said on Sunday that they have arrested three suspects after flares were fired at the private residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the coastal city of Caesarea.
Authorities said the prime minister and his family were not at the residence when two flares were fired at it overnight, and there were no injuries.
The police did not provide details about the suspects, but officials pointed to domestic political critics of Netanyahu. Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the incident and warned against “an escalation of the violence in the public sphere”.
Netanyahu has faced months of mass protests over his handling of the hostage crisis unleashed by Hamas' October 7, 2023 attack into Israel, which ignited the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
Critics blame Netanyahu for the security and intelligence failures that allowed the attack to happen and for not reaching a deal with Hamas to release scores of hostages still held inside Gaza.
A drone launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah group struck Netanyahu's Caesarea residence last month, also when he and his family were away.
