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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

State/Miscellany The common wealth of crorepatis

BANGALORE: As the battlelines for the May 5 Assembly polls are being drawn, the electoral arena seems to be full of crorepatis jostling for political space.
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AMARA BAVANI DEV
April 17, 2013
LIABILITY

Assets and liabilities of Blore candidates

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Congress candidate from Vijayanagar constituency in Bellary, Abdul Wahab, has declared in the affidavit on assets and liabilities filed along with the nomination papers that he and his wife Mahira Wahab own assets worth Rs 71.03 crore. While Wahab, a mining tycoon, has declared that he has Rs 75 lakh in cash and Rs one crore as fixed deposits in banks, his wifes savings bank balance totals Rs 26 lakh, besides a fixed deposit of Rs 1.92 One super rich in fray in Rajajinagar crore. He has no liabilities. The Wahab couple own a As the super rich contest the elections across the State, the Mercedes Benz, Tata Fortuner, contest in Rajajinagar appears to be a high profile battle of Mahindra XUV-500 and Carthe relatively poor candidates and one super rich nominee. olla Altis; and commercial The four-way fight is expected to be between sitting MLA S properties on Cunningham Suresh Kumar, KJPs Shobha Karandlaje, Congress ManjuRoad, Banashankari II Stage, la Naidu, who collectively have assets of not more than Rs M G Road, Vittal Mallya Road nine crore, as compared to JD(S) candidate S T Anand, who and residences on Whitefield has assets worth Rs 85.02 crore. Anand has declared his assets, mostly land purchases, at Rs 85 crore with Rs 7.72 Road and Nandidurga Road, crore as liabilities. Karandlaje, has declared assets of Rs 4.74 all in Bangalore. While Wahab crore. Interestingly, of her declared Rs 3.86 crore in liabiliowns jewellery worth Rs 42.6 ties, she has shown that she owes Adarsh Developers a sum lakh, his wife owns jewellery of Rs 3.66 crore. Suresh Kumar has declared assets of his worth Rs 1.56 crore. Wahab family at Rs 2.63 crore with only Rs five lakh against his will face another multiname. Perhaps, the poorest candidate in the fray is Manjula crorepati Tourism Minister Naidu, who has declared assets of only Rs 1.15 crore. Anand Singh in the polls. Among other super rich candidates is prominent developer ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| and BJP nominee from Chick- declaration, Garudachar has assets to the tune of Rs 95.74 pet, Uday B Garudachar. In his said that he and his wife own crore. He has declared close to

Padmanaba Reddy K J George Aravind Limbavali M Krishnappa A Narayanaswamy Prof B K Chandrashekar Ravi Subramanya

BJP Cong BJP BJP BJP Cong BJP

Sarvagnagar Sarvagnagar Mahadevapura Blore south Anekal Basavanagudi Basavanagudi

9.50 cr 32.50 cr 6.12 cr 34.63 cr 8.4 cr 7.84 cr 3.37 cr

52 lakh 29 lakh 1.48 cr 7.85 cr 4.1 cr nil 35.82 lakh

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eight kg of gold in his and his wifes name. While five kg of gold has been declared in his wifes name, Garudachar himself has three kg of gold. The total value of the gold is placed at Rs 2.24 crore. Despite being a prominent builder, Garudachar does not own a single motor vehicle. His liabilities are placed at Rs 16.62 crore. The total assets of Shantinagar Congress candidate N A Haris are about Rs 132 crore and liabilities are about Rs 3.5 crore. He has immovable assets of Rs 93 crore and movable assets of about Rs 39 crore. He has savings accounts in seven banks, fixed deposits in about nine banks and lent money to more than two dozens individuals and institutions and companies. He has jewellery worth about Rs 67 lakh. But he does not own any motor vehicle.
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This auditor in poll fray worth Rs 300 crore

TUMKUR: Congress candidate from the Tumkur Rural constituency, Yelachavadi Nagaraj and his wife together have assets exceeding Rs 300 crore. He is said to be the richest contestant in the history of elections in the district. An auditor by profession, he is the vice president of the Rajya Vokkaligara Sangha and a resident of Bangalore. He hails from Yelachavadi in the district. The immovable properties owned by Nagarajs wife alone are worth Rs 199 crore, but she owns only a moped. In contrast, he owns a Scorpio sports utility vehicle (SUV). In the affidavit the candi-

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date submitted with his nomination papers on Monday, he declared an annual income of Rs 20.79 lakh, while that of his wife is Rs 17 lakh.Nagaraj has earned property worth Rs 35 crore in the 10 years between 1999 and 2009. He owns land in Tumkur and Bangalore Rural districts. While Nagaraj has liabilities of Rs 12.89 crore, his wife has loans amounting to Rs 42.7 crore. Nagarajs rival and sitting BJP legislator from the constituency, B Suresh Gowda had declared that he has assests worth rupees three crore. These including agricultural lands, and poultry farms.
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HC sets aside CAT stay on DCs transfers

BANGALORE: The High Court

Website crash puts EC in a spot of bother

BANGALORE: In a problem that has persisted over two days, affidavits filed by candidates of at least seven Assembly constituencies in Bangalore were not uploaded on the Election Commissions (EC) website till late Monday night.

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on Tuesday set aside the Central Administrative Tribunals (CAT) interim stay on the government order of March 27, 2013 transferring eight deputy commissioners based on the recommendations of the Election Commission of India (ECI), for free and fair conduct of elections in the State. A Division Bench comprising Justice N Kumar and Justice B Manohar passed the order allowing a petition filed by

the ECI challenging the CAT order and granted the stay. The Bench observed that Article 324 of the Constitution gave full powers to the ECI to make recommendations to transfer IAS officers. The Bench in the order said transfers were purely on the basis of deputation and once the results of the elections were announced, the DCs would resume their service in their respective districts. IAS officers, including Dr K

S Rame Gowda, B N Krishnaiah, N Prakash, F R Jamadar, S N Nagaraju, V Srirama Reddy and N Jayaram had approached CAT after the government issued orders of transfer on March 27 based on the ECIs recommendations. The IAS officers had contended that during the urban local body elections, there was no problem and now they have been transferred even before completion of their tenure.
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This apart, the Chief Election Officers (CEO) website also crashed on Tuesday, giving an impression that the ECs online portal was ill-equipped to handle the heavy load of work. With close to 50 candidates contesting elections from these seven constituencies, the lapse prevented citizens and reporters from scrutinising the affidavits of election aspirants, including heavyweights such as Shobha Karandlaje, Suresh Kumar, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Uday Garudachar and Zameer Ahmed Khan. According to the returning officers of some of the constituencies in question, a delay occurred because of the timeconsuming process of transporting affidavits to the BBMP head office, where they are first compiled and then uploaded on the Commissions website. The constituencies from where none of the affidavits was uploaded include Rajajinagar, Gandhinagar, Chickpet, Chamarajpet, Shivajinagar and Shanthinagar. When asked about the problems, the Assistant District Election Officer (ADEO) said that despite the delays involved, it was the responsibility of the returning officer to upload them on the website in time. We had 24 hours to get them online, he said. In reality, however, the website crash extended the delay to nearly 36 hours. Worse, problems persisted in some on the uploaded documents. In the case of JD(S) candidate Akanda Srinivas Murthy from Pulakeshinagar, the Commission had uploaded only the last page of his affidavit.

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Weather
Overview Rainfall occurred at a few places over South Interior Karnataka. Mainly dry weather prevailed over North Interior Karnataka and dry weather prevailed over Coastal Karnataka. Heavy rainfall amount (cm): Huliyurdurga (Tumkur dt) 9. Other chief rainfall amounts (cm): Basaralu, Malavalli ARG, Malavalli (all Mandya dt) 5 each; MM Hills (Chamarajanagar dt), Honakere, Maddur (both Mandya dt), Chintamani (Chikaballapura dt) 3 each; KR Nagara,T Narasipura (both Mysore dt), Srirangapatna (Mandya dt), Mandya, Rayalpadu, K G F (both Kolar dt), Nelamangala (Bangalore Rural dt), Chintamani, Gowribidanur (both Chikaballapura dt), Kunigal ARG (Tumkur dt) 2 each; Yelandur, Kollegala (both Chamarajanagar dt), CR Patna (Hassan dt), Malur (Kolar dt), GKVK (Bangalore Urban dt), Thondebhavi (Chikaballapura dt), Kanakapura (Ramanagara dt), Kunigal, Koratagere (both Tumkur dt) 1 each. Maximum temperatures changed little over the State. They were above normal at a few places over South Interior Karnataka and were normal over Coastal Karnataka and North Interior Karnataka. Gulbarga recorded the highest maximum temperature of 41.5 deg C in the plains of the State. Forecast valid until the morning of Thursday: Rain/thundershowers would occur at isolated places over South Interior Karnataka. Mainly dry weather would prevail over Coastal Karnataka and North Interior Karnataka. Farmers Weather Bulletin for Karnataka: Forecast valid until the morning of Thursday: Light to moderate rain would occur at isolated places over all the districts of South Interior Karnataka. Mainly dry weather would prevail over all the districts of Coastal Karnataka and North Interior Karnataka. Outlook for subsequent two days: No significant change is expected over the State. KARNATAKA
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In another blunder, the Election Commission appears to have not recognised Shikaripura in Shimoga as a constituency on its website. Till late Monday night, Shikaripura and its highprofile candidate B S Yeddyurappa (who filed his nominations on Monday), were not available for public scrutiny.

Website overload When asked about the technical glitches with the Commissions website (http://www. ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in), Ramesh K N Special Officer (Technical) at the office of the Chief Electoral Officer, on Tuesday claimed that the website went offline because it was subjected to increased workload. At any given point during the day, there are a lakh application files, including voter en- DH News Service

rolment and candidate nominations from different parts of the State, being uploaded on the website, he said. This has resulted in glitches leading to crashing of the site. But we cannot stop the uploading process as tabulation needs to take place. However, the website returns to normal by the evening of every day. With regard to the BBMP central zone where the server was being overloaded with inputs and data, Ramesh said some returning officers had made arrangements to upload the affidavits of all constituencies in the jurisdiction at a single point nearby. They think that such arrangements are for their convenience, when in reality it actually places more load on a single server, he said.

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