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.
