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Although eligible citizens tin use for enrolment successful the electoral rotation till Monday (March 23), the last time for filing nominations for the April 9 Assembly polls successful Kerala, lone those individuals who had applied connected oregon earlier March 15 would beryllium capable to ballot this time.
Procedures related to the processing of an exertion and adding the sanction to the electoral rotation instrumentality up to 10 days. Therefore, lone those applications filed connected oregon earlier March 15 would beryllium treated arsenic eligible for the upcoming Assembly polls, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Rathan U. Kelkar said connected Sunday.
The contented had caused immoderate disorder arsenic predetermination officials had earlier stated that names tin beryllium added to the rotation till the past time of filing nominations.
Mr. Kelkar said applications received aft March 15 would beryllium processed lone aft the results of the elections are declared connected May 4. Fresh applications besides volition beryllium accepted aft the results are out.
Kerala has a small implicit 2.7 crore voters successful the electoral roll. The deadline for filing information papers for the Assembly polls volition extremity astatine 3 p.m. connected Monday. An update from Mr. Kelkar’s bureau said341 candidates person truthful acold filed a full of 607sets of information papers.
In 2021, determination were 957 candidates successful the fray and a full of 2,180 nominations had been filed crossed the State.
Till Sunday, 1,39,799 complaints person been filed regarding Model Code of Conduct violations.
cVIGIL app
A full of 33,194 complaints were filed via the cVIGIL app. The cVIGIL app is simply a web-based level developed by the Election Commission of India (EC) for responding promptly to complaints related to electoral irregularities filed by the public.
On Sunday alone, 7,295 complaints were filed done this facility, according to the CEO’s office.
