Nomination papers taken up for scrutiny

At work: Returning Officer and District Collector V. Palanikumar scrutinising the nominations for Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency in the presence of candidates and representatives of political parties at the Coimbatore Collectorate on Saturday. (Right) Returning Officer for Tirupur Lok Sabha constituency C. Samayamoorthy scrutinising the nomination papers in the presence of Election Observers at Tirupur Collectorate.

Coimbatore: After the scrutiny of nominations for the Coimbatore and Pollachi Lok Sabha constituencies on Saturday, the election authorities declared that the papers of 29 candidates for Coimbatore and 24 for Pollachi are valid.

Returning Officer, District Election Officer and District Collector V. Palanikumar conducted the scrutiny for the Coimbatore Lok Sabha constituency while the Returning Officer and District Revenue Officer, S. Prabhakaran, scrutinised the nominations for the Pollachi Lok Sabha constituency.

The scrutiny took place in the presence of candidates and representatives of political parties.

Observers

Election Observers for Coimbatore, Vinod R Rao, an IAS officer from Gujarat, N.P. Agarwal, an IC and CES officer from Madhya Pradesh and Dillip Kumar, an IFS officer from Karnataka, were present.

For the scrutiny of papers for the Pollachi constituency, the observers, Amrendrakumar Singh, an IAS officer from West Bengal, Tushar Kanti Behera, an IFS officer from Punjab and S.K. Sharma, an IRS officer from New Delhi were present.

On the last day of filing the nominations on Friday, as many as 54 nominations from 39 candidates were received for the Coimbatore constituency.

After the scrutiny, the nominations of 29 candidates were declared valid. Four of them are candidates of the recognised/registered political parties at the national and State level while eight are candidates from the registered political parties other than national and State political parties. Seventeen candidates are Independents.

For Pollachi, of the 42 nominations filed by 29 candidates, 24 were declared valid.

Of which, four are candidates of recognised/registered national and State political parties, seven are candidates of parties other than registered/recognised national and State political parties while the rest are Independents.

The withdrawal of nomination papers is scheduled for April 27.

Tirupur

Our Staff Reporter adds from Tirupur:

Nominations of 12 of the 34 candidates who had filed their papers for Tirupur Lok Sabha constituency were rejected following the scrutiny held at the Collectorate here.

A notable one is the rejection of papers submitted by Bahujan Samaj Party’s both main and dummy candidates.

Rejected

Following is the list of candidates whose nominations were rejected:

K. Thangaraj (AIADMK dummy); T.Sakunthala (Independent); V.A.Gopal (Akila India Vellalar Peravai); D. Rathinamoni (All India Trinamool Congress); S. Subramaniam (DMDK dummy); J. Mahohar (BJP dummy); S.K.Venmathi (Congress dummy); S. Balakrishnan (Bahujan Samaj Party); R. Nataraj (BSP dummy); Kuthbudeen (Makkal Jananayaga Katchi); P.Alagappan (Independent) and N.C.Selvaraj (Independent).

Nomination papers of three dummy candidates of recognised political parties (i.e. AIADMK, BJP and DMDK) got rejected automatically once the nominations submitted by the main candidates were declared valid as per the guidelines of the Election Commission of India.

The other nominations were rejected on the grounds like name not figuring in the electoral rolls, among other reasons.

The scrutiny of nomination papers was carried out directly by the Returning Officer, C. Samayamoorthy.

Election Observers appointed for Tirupur Lok Sabha constituency, Mohan Chandra Upreti (Tirupur North and Tirupur South Assembly segments); Shiv Bardani Bhadauria (Bhavani and Anthiyur) and S. Ramu (Perundurai and Gobichettipalayam), were present during the process.

Source: The Hindu