The Karnataka election fee, on Sunday, launched the ultimate checklist of voters for the three meeting constituencies, which fall beneath metropolis civic physique limits in Bengaluru – Shivajinagar, Mahadevapura and Chickpet.
The Election Fee of India (ECI) prolonged the interval of particular abstract revision of electoral rolls in these three constituencies by 15 days after an alleged theft of voters’ information got here to mild, and instructed them to conduct 100% house-to-house visits to confirm modifications to the electoral rolls.
In accordance with the checklist, there are 980,542 voters, of which 515,983 are male, 464,415 are feminine and 144 different (third gender) voters.
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahangara Palike (BBMP) chief commissioner Tushar Girinath and district electoral officers launched the checklist on Sunday.
In accordance with the BBMP, There are 194,937 voters within the Shivajinagar constituency, 213,066 in Chickpet, and 572,539 within the Mahadevapura.
Earlier, the BBMP chief commissioner launched the ultimate checklist of voters of 25 out of the 28 meeting constituencies, excluding Mahadevapura, Shivajinagar and Chickpet Meeting constituencies, on January 5.
The checklist confirmed 8.2 million registered voters within the 25 meeting constituencies. Of them, 4,265,140 are male, 3,962,712 feminine, and 1,523 different voters, Girinath had mentioned.
The BBMP discovered that the names of roughly 80,386 voters had been added to the electoral rolls a month after the alleged voter information theft got here to mild.
NGO Chilume was accused of accumulating private details about voters, with its members posing as authorities officers in some circumstances.
The BBMP had entrusted Chilume with the duty of conducting house-to-house surveys to create consciousness of the revision of electoral rolls. The agency, nevertheless, allegedly went door-to-door to gather private particulars, together with caste, training, mom tongue, Aadhaar and different particulars.
Final month, the BBMP blacklisted Chilume amid allegations of voter information theft. Girinath, additionally the election officer for the town, handed an order blacklisting the entity and prohibiting it from taking part in any consciousness programmes organised by the civic physique and the service and procurement tenders floated by the BBMP.
On November 18, the pinnacle of the NGO, Krishnappa Ravikumar, was arrested together with different workers, together with director Renuka Prasad, human relations govt Dharmesh and undertaking govt Prajwal.
On November 27, 4 BBMP officers had been arrested on expenses of offering faux ID playing cards to representatives of Chilume. The Halasuru Gate police arrested income officers Chandrashekar Ok (Mahadevapura), Suhail Ahmed (Shivajinagar) and Bheemashankar (Chickpet) and assistant income officer Mahesh (RR Nagar).
Girinath mentioned that the electoral inhabitants ratio is low, and efforts are on to incorporate everybody on the voter checklist.
On Sunday, Girinath mentioned there could be a steady revision of the electoral roll, addition, modification, switch and elimination from the electoral roll. He added that those that need to enrol on the voters’ checklist may go to www.ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in and BBMP web site www.bbmp.gov.in. “Voters are supplied with a possibility to confirm and guarantee their particulars are in place,” he mentioned.