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Note ban will end up making UP polls more costly: Survey

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December 26, 2016

Lucknow, Dec 26: Demonetisation has forced candidates to find "innovative ways to pump in black money" for campaigning which will end up making the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls more costly, a survey has claimed.note

The survey conducted jointly by Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and UP Election Watch to study impact of demonetisation on poll expenses said, "Demonetisation will have no impact in the campaigning or the poll expense."

In the survey, 69 per cent of the prospective candidates and party office-bearers admitted that compared to previous polls, the cost of contesting elections would rise by at least 10 per cent due to demonetisation.

Around 65 per cent of the perspective candidates said there would be no impact on the "mode and methods of luring voters" in the coming Assembly polls while 70 per cent said they would follow the old patterns to woo voters.

Traders dealing in poll materials; event managers, printers and travel agents said there would be problem in the campaigning and 70 per cent of them admitted their trade has been affected.

On cashless system, 60 per cent of the traders admitted it would have no adverse effect on their business.

While releasing the report of the survey, chief convener of ADR and UP Election Watch, Sanjay Singh said post demonetisation, a survey on its possible impact in the forthcoming assembly elections of UP was conducted in various areas and Assembly segments of the state.

The survey was conducted in 30 Assembly constituencies spread over 10 divisions of Uttar Pradesh -- Jhansi, Banda, Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Allahabad, Agra and Bareilly.

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Althaf
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Tuesday, 27 Dec 2016

But for BJP it does not matter because most of the BJP Leaders already gathered crores of black money with the help of Our FENKU

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May 27,2020

Kasaragod, May 27: In a tragic incident, two persons, who were brothers, died of asphyxiation while trying to rescue a calf that fell in their well at Bandhiyod near here on Wednesday.

Police sources said the elder brother Narayanan (50) entered into the well first to save the calf that fell in the well early in the morning.

His brother Sankaran (40) also followed suit after he noticed his brother fainting deep down the well. However, he also fainted inside the well.

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July 27,2020

Kasaragod, Jul 27: Seven persons belonging to two relative-families who attended a funeral recently had been tested positive for Coronavirus on Monday.

Sources said the two families had been to Thavinjal near here for the funeral of a man who died at the Kozhikode Medical College Hospital on July 19.

Later, the samples of these seven persons were sent for testing after they developed symptoms of COVID-19, the result of which came out on Monday.

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May 22,2020

Bengaluru, May 22: Karnataka Congress delegation met Chief Election Commissioner, Dr B Basavaraju in Bengaluru, urging him to guide Karnataka Government to conduct local body elections and not to allow State government to nominate their party men to the local bodies.

The delegation was led by Congress leader Siddaramaiah and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president D K Shivakumar.

"They (State government) wants to postpone the election, they have a lot of other provisions. We are demanding to protect the law, the government doesn't have the power to interfere in the system. We will not allow the state government to nominate their party men.

The CM and his entire team is responsible for this, they are killing the democracy and Panchayati Raj system of the State," said Shivakumar while speaking to the reporters.

The local body elections were scheduled to take place in the month of March or April, which were postponed in view of the COVID-19 crisis.

However, the date for conducting the local body elections has not been decided yet.

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