The Hindu 28.02.2013
198 candidates in fray for Hassan CMC polls
As many as 198 candidates are remaining in the fray for
elections in the 35 wards of the Hassan City Municipal Council (CMC)
after 39 people withdrew their nomination papers on Wednesday, the last
day to withdraw the papers.
In ward no. 9, there are
only two contestants: Hassan MLA H.S. Prakash’s brother H.S. Anil Kumar
of the Janata Dal (Secular) and Vijay Sharma of the Bharatiya Janata
Party. Hassan district Superintendent of Police Amit Singh said 26
check-posts would be set up across the district on Thursday in view of
the elections to the urban local bodies, scheduled for March 7.
Mr.
Singh said on Wednesday that he had constituted 45 mobile squads. The
mobile squads would be patrolling the district to check any untoward
incident. Each squad would supervise seven to eight polling booths, he
added. Of the 310 polling booths to be set up for elections to the eight
urban local bodies in the district, 42 had been identified as
hyper-sensitive and 31 as sensitive booths.
