Chennai, Mar 22 (UNI) A total of 7,255 nominations have been
filed for the April six Assembly elections of which 4,512 were
accepted after scrutiny, Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer
Satyabrata Sahoo said on Monday.
For the bypoll to Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha seat a total of
23 nominations were filed of which 13 were accepted and
the remaining ten were rejected.
The bypoll was being held to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Congress MP H Vasanthakumar. His son Vijay
has been given the ticket and he is pitted against senior
BJP leader and former Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan.
Talking to reporters here, Mr Sahoo said a total of 7,255
nominations, including 6,183 men and 1.069 women and
three from third gender, have filed their papers for the
Assembly polls.
After scrutiny, the nominations of 4,512 were found to be
in order, while 2,743 papers were rejected.
Mr Sahoo said today being the last date for withdrawal
of nominations, a final picture would be known after the
withdrawal process.
He said a total of Rs 83.99 crore unaccounted cash have
been seized by the IT and flying squad officials, besides
liquor to the tune of Rs 1.70 crore were also seized across
the State.
Mr Sahoo said the total electorate in Tamil Nadu went up
from 6.21 crore to 6.29 crore, which included 3.09 crore
men, 3.19 crore women and 7,912 Third Gender.
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