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THE TELANGANA GAZETTE

PART - V EXTRAORDINARY

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

No. 31 ]

HYDERABAD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2024.

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

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT

(ELECTIONS)

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

[Price : `. 5-00.

HSE No.1051/2023-2025.

BYE ELECTION TO THE TELANGANA LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS FROM WARANGAL-KHAMMAM-

NALGONDA GRADUATES’ CONSTITUENCY - POLL FOR WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BE TAKEN

ON 27^TH MAY, 2024 - ELECTION COMMISSION’S ORDER REGARDING IDENTIFICATION OF

ELECTORS.

[Memo No.11759 Elecs.B/2023-25, Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Telangana, General Administration

(ELECTIONS) Department, Dated: 07^th May, 2024.]

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

Dated: 04^th May, 2024 is published.

ORDER

No.3/4/ID/2024/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

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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

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

equally applicable at election from Graduates’ Constituency, 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 Constitucncies;

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TELANGANA GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY

[Part-V

By Order,

S.B. JOSHI,

Principal Secretary,

Election Commission of India.

VIKAS RAJ,

Chief Electoral Officer &

E.O. Special Chief Secretary to Government.

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

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

Commission hereby directs that all the electors at the current bye election to the Telangana Legislative Councils

from Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Graduates’ Constituency, 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 woting at the

current bye election to the Telangana Legislative Council from Warangal-Khammam-Nalgonda Graduates’

Constituency, notified on 2^nd May, 2024(Thursday). 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 Licence,

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 empolyed.

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

ix.

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

x.

Unique Disability ID (UDID) Card, M/o Social Justice & Empowerment, Governement of

India.