THE TELANGANA GAZETTE

PART-V EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 06]

HYDERABAD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2021.

STATUTORY NOTIFICATIONS OF THE ELECTION COMMISSION OF

INDIA AND OTHER ELECTION NOTIFICATIONS

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NOTIFICATIONS BY GOVERNMENT

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER , TELANGANA

BIENNIAL ELECTION TO TELANGANA STATE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FROM WARANGAL-

KHAMMAM-NALGONDA AND MAHABUBNAGAR - RANGAREDDY - HYDERABAD

GRADUATE’S CONSTITUENCIES -IDENTIFICATION OF ELECTORS - SPECIFIED

DOCUMENTS - COMMUNICATED.

[Memo No.1069/Elecs.B/A1/2020, Office of the Chief Elector Officer, Telangana

Dated: 27^th February, 2021].

The following order of the Election Commission of India, Nirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New Delhi-110001,

Dated 20^th February, 2021 is Published:-

ORDER

R.N.I. No. TELMUL/2016/73158.

[ Price : `. 5-00.

HSE No. 1051/2020-2022.

No. 3/4/ID/2020/SDR(Councils) :– 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

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 Identify 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

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;

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By Order,

N.T. BHUTIA,

Secretary,

Election Commission of India.

Dr. SHASHANK GOEL,

Chief Electoral Officer &

E.O. Principal Secretary to Government.

Printed and Published by the Commissioner of Printing, Government of Telangana at Government Central Press, Chanchalguda Hyderabad.

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 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 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 :-

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