Yamini C S | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the town’s civic physique, has began a brand new door-to-door marketing campaign to maximise voter turnout within the Karnata meeting election to be held subsequent 12 months. The transfer comes after an analogous survey was performed by an NGO in mid-November. The NGO has been accused of amassing private info from the general public, beneath the guise of spreading consciousness, by impersonating BBMP officers. The Congress has alleged that this was completed in connivance with the ruling BJP authorities. The BJP has, nevertheless, denied the allegations.
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The contemporary survey to be performed by the BBMP goals to make sure most voter turnout, the Deccan Herald reported. Practically 60 per cent of the homes throughout all 28 constituencies have been surveyed thus far, it added.
The earlier survey was facilitated by a BBMP order which permitted the NGO, Chilume, to go door-to-door and “unfold consciousness” on learn how to apply for a Voters ID on-line. Nonetheless, it later got here to be recognized that the NGO members posed as authorities officers and obtained personal info – from caste to marital standing – of 1000’s of voters in Bengaluru.
This triggered a serious political slugfest within the poll-bound state. A couple of officers from the income division instructed the publication that residents weren’t supportive of their newest initiative after the earlier survey performed by the NGO stole delicate info from them.
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Officers and representatives of the primary political events within the state are additionally set to have a gathering to debate their grievances relating to the variety of additions and deletions made within the electoral rolls of the meeting seat in Mahadevapura constituency for the reason that begin of the 12 months. The 2 different meeting seats beneath the BBMP limits are Shivajinagar and Chickpet.