The postponed election to the the Karnataka Legislative Council from the Karnataka South Graduates’ Constituency will take place on June 30. The campaign has come to an end this evening, 48 hours ahead of the polling.
The presiding officers and the electoral officers have been directed to report tomorrow at the mustering place. The counting of votes of the South Graduates’ Constituency will be conducted at the JSS Arts, Commerce and Science College on Ooty Road from 8 am to 4 pm. The counting of votes along with three other constituencies in the state will take place simultaneously on July 3.
It may be remembered that the election for the South Graduates’ Constituency was scheduled on June 21, the day on which three other constituencies were also scheduled for polling.
Following a direction by the Karnataka High Court on a writ petition filed by an independent candidate, the election was postponed for June 30, the court upholding the petition of the candidate which had been rejected by the Returning Officer on technical grounds earlier.
The court had directed the Election Commission to accept the nomination papers of the rejected candidate. The court order had necessitated the postponement of the election in the four districts of Mysore.
, Mandya, Hassan and Chamarajanagar, the jurisdiction of the constituency.
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Elections for the remaining three Council seats, however, took place as scheduled on June 21. They are: Karnataka North-West Graduates’ constituency, Karnataka North-West Teachers’ constituency and Karnataka West Teachers’ constituency.
The Election Commission of India had subsequently challenged the single bench judge’s order in the court maintaining that the court had no powers to stop an election process once it was set in motion. BJP candidate contesting from the constituency G Madhusudhan had also filed an appeal in the high court, challenging the order. The single bench reversed its earlier order and rejected the petition of the Independent candidate.