PART V EXTRAORDINARY

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BIENNIAL ELECTION TO THE ANDHRA PRADESH LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FROM

TEACHERS’ CONSTITUENCIES – ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA ORDER

REGARDING PRODUCTION OF ELECTORAL PHOTO IDENTITY CARDS OR OTHER

ALTERNATIVE DOCUMENTS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ELECTORS.

(Memo.No.296/Elecs.D/2021-34, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh, Dated:22.02.2021)

The

following

Order

of

the

Election

Commission

of

India,

New

Delhi,

No.3/4/ID/2020/SDR(Councils), dated 20^th February, 2021 is published:-

ORDER

Whereas, the Election Commission has been following the policy of compulsory

identification of electors by means of specified identification documents at elections to the House

of the People and Legislative Assemblies from the year 2000 onwards, so as to prevent

impersonation at elections thereby making the right of genuine electors to vote under section 62 of

the Representation of the People Act, 1951 more effective; and

2.

Whereas, keeping in view the provisions of Rules 35(3) and 37(2)(b) of the Conduct of

Elections Rules, 1961, the Commission has been issuing directions that the electors at election to

House of the People and Legislative Assemblies shall produce their Electors Photo Identity Card

or other specified documents at the polling station and failure or refusal on their part to produce

those Electors Photo Identity Card or documents may result in the denial of supply of a ballot

paper to them and permission to vote; and

Registered No. HSE-49/2016

No.8

AMARAVATI, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2021

G.746

STATUTORY NOTIFICATIONS OF THE ELECTION COMMISSION OF

INDIA AND OTHER ELECTION NOTIFICATIONS

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NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION (ELECTIONS) DEPARTMENT

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ANDHRA PRADESH GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

[PART-V

3.

Whereas, the said provisions regarding identification of electors and safeguards against

impersonation are equally applicable at elections from Teachers’ Constituencies, and as the

electors in these constituencies are also electors in assembly constituencies, they would have

been supplied with Electors Photo Identity Card as electors in their respective Assembly

Constituencies;

4.

Now, therefore, after taking into account all relevant factors and the legal and factual

position, the Election Commission hereby directs that all electors at the current East-West

Godavari Teachers’ & Krishna-Guntur Teachers’ Constituencies in the State of Andhra

Pradesh and Mahabubnagar-Ranga Reddy-Hyderabad Graduates’ & Warangal-Khammam-

Nalgonda Graduates’ in the State of Telangana, who have been issued with their EPICs, shall

have to produce these cards to exercise their franchise, when they come to the polling stations for

voting at the current biennial election to the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Legislative

Councils from the said Constituencies, notified on 16^th February, 2021 (Tuesday). However,

those electors, who are not able to produce their EPICs, will have to produce any of the following

alternative documents for establishing their identity:-

i. Aadaar Card,

ii. Driving License,

iii. PAN Card,

iv. Indian Passport

v. Service identity card issued to its employees by State/ Central government, Public Sector

Undertakings, Local bodies or other Private Industrial Houses.

vi. Official identity Cards issued to MPs/ MLAs/ MLCs.

vii. Service Identity Card issued by the educational Institutions in which the electors of the

concerned Teachers’ / Graduates’ Constituency may be employed,

viii. Certificate of degree/ Diploma issued by University, in original,

ix. Certificate of physical handicap issued by competent Authority, in original,

By order,

N.T. BHUTIA,

Secretary,

Election Commission of India.

K.VIJAYANAND,

Chief Electoral Officer,

Andhra Pradesh.