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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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
