Even because the marketing campaign drums fell silent, the rancorous combat between the main political coalitions in Pathanamathitta continued unabated on Thursday.
The episode started to unfold with United Democratic Entrance candidate Anto Antony staging a protest on the district Collectorate right here, alleging that the Left Democratic Entrance leaked the checklist of polling officers on obligation within the Konni Meeting phase.
“This checklist, which ought to be handed over solely through the distribution of polling supplies and may stay identifiable solely to the designated officers, has been broadly circulated throughout numerous WhatsApp teams for not less than a few days now. That is a part of an try and commit election fraud,” alleged Mr. Antony.
He additionally accused the election authority of taking no motion on his earlier complaints relating to alleged violations of the election protocol by Left Democratic Entrance candidate T.M. Thomas Isaac.
Taking a severe notice of the event, District Collector and Election Officer S. Prem Krishnan positioned Yadu Krishnan, a Decrease Division Clerk with Konni Taluk Workplace, beneath suspension pending inquiry. The suspension was based mostly on the discovering that the doc, which had been despatched by means of official mail, had made its entry into a private chat group from the stated official’s cellphone.
Commenting on the event, the District Collector stated the problem was resolved as quickly because it got here to his discover. The checklist of polling officers on obligation was fully revamped and a committee constituted to search out out the involvement of different officers.
“Motion can be initiated towards all those that circulated the official doc by means of social media. A police criticism has been filed on this regard,” the official stated.
The LDF, on its half, additionally levelled allegations towards the UDF candidate, accusing him of producing one lakh pretend election identification playing cards. Primarily based on a criticism lodged by LDF chief election agent Raju Abraham, the Collector is slated to hunt an evidence from Mr. Antony.
Later within the day, the Nationwide Democratic Alliance additionally got here up with a criticism towards the LDF, accusing the coalition of utilizing Kudumbasree and Harithakarma Sena employees in violation of the protocol. In keeping with a criticism filed by NDA chief election agent V.A. Arun Prakash, Kudumbasree employees have been made to face along with the LDF candidate and {a photograph} of the identical was being broadly circulated by means of pamphlets and newspaper advertisements.
Equally, a couple of members of the Harithakarma Sena beneath Pandalam municipality had campaigned for Dr. Isaac sporting their official uniform. {A photograph} of the identical was being broadly circulated by means of social media, it added.
