Nominations will be accepted from 11 am tomorrow to 3 pm on May 25 and the polling will be held on June 12, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Bhanwar Lal told reporters here today.
A whopping Rs 14.50 crore worth of unaccounted money and over one lakh litres of illicit liquor was seized during police checks as part of enforcement of the poll code, Lal said.
While the Income Tax department has appointed 12 nodal officers, a request will be made for appointing more in view of the large amount of money having been seized already, he said.
Also, three IPS officers and 20 IAS officers have been appointed as police observers and general observers respectively, he said.
Excise officers of bordering Tamil Nadu and Karnataka will be requested to help in checking the flow of illicit liquor into the state as well, Lal added.
The CEO has held a meeting with the representatives of recognised political parties here to brief them about various aspects of the by-elections and the model code of conduct.
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Noting that the situation is under control in all poll-bound districts, he said, political parties too reported the same "except for two or three incidents".
Bypolls to 16 of the 18 assembly seats were necessitated as the sitting Congress MLAs were disqualified by the Assembly Speaker in December last for switching loyalty to Kadapa MP Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and voting against the Congress government during a floor test.
While another sitting member had quit in support of Jagan, actor-turned-politician Chiranjeevi quit as MLA following his election to Rajya Sabha.
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