HYDERABAD: Dozens of Independent candidates, who filed their nomination in the MLC elections, have submitted either forged signatures of proposers or furnish the proposers’ names, the election authorities said.
They rejected their nominations while scrutinising the papers on Wednesday, authorities said.
For instance, three independent candidates’ nominations were rejected by the election authorities saying the signatures of the proposers on the nomination papers were not genuine.
Similarly, in Karimnagar Local Authorities’ Constituency, where 14 independent candidates’ nominations were rejected, either signatures were not genuine or they proposers have not signed on the nomination papers. Some have not submitted their affidavits. In some constituencies, candidates have not even submitted security deposit.
In Nizamabad, the lone independent candidate Kotagiri Srinivas’s nomination was not accepted as the affidavit was incomplete.
According to the rules, the candidates aspiring to contest in MLC elections have to submit either 10% of the total electors or 10 voters in their nomination papers.
In Local Authority Constituency, elected local bodies representatives are voters.
While the last date for nominations ended on November 23, the election returning officers and observers scrutinized the nominations on Wednesday. Of more than 100 nominations filed till November 23, 92 were found to be valid.
Apart from the ruling TRS, Congress candidates are in the fray in the segments like Medak and Khammam Constituencies.
KCR’s daughter and sitting MLC K Kavitha from Nizamabad, Patnam Mahender Reddy and Sunkari Raju from Ranga Reddy are likely to be declared elected unanimous as they are no other candidates in the contest. After withdrawal of the nominations, more MLCs are likely to be get elected unanimously.
It has become a herculean task for the ruling party leaders to convince independent candidates to withdraw them from the contest. But in Adilabad and Karimnagar districts, where huge number of candidates in fray, unanimous election is unlikely.
In Ranga Reddy district only one independent candidate Chandrasekhar Chalika filed his nomination. His nomination was also rejected on Wednesday during scrutiny of nomination as he failed to get the proposers names and pay deposit.
