Neyyattinkara By-poll Results: 17 candidates in fray after scrutiny

Thursday, May 17, 2012: After the scrutiny of nominations, seventeen candidates are left in the fray for the June 2nd by-election to the Neyyattinkara Assembly constituency.
Three nominations were rejected or cancelled by district election officers after the scrutiny. In all, 20 nominations were filed in which the nominations of one independent and two dummy candidates of CPM and BJP were rejected. The last date for withdrawing nominations will be May 19.
As the Election Commission is keen on avoiding the repetition of names in the candidates’ list, care should be taken to ensure that the namesakes are identified differently by adding the native place. The CEC has given instructions for the officials to provide identity codes for the namesake candidates.