Karnataka: Independent candidate contesting from Yadgir assembly seat pays deposit fee of Rs 10,000 in Re 1 coins

KALABURAGI : An independent candidate contesting from Yadgir assembly segment gave electoral officers backbreaking work by paying the entire deposit money of Rs 10,000 in Re one coins.
Yankappa had collected the coins from voters in the constituency. He arrived with a banner around his neck which had images of 12thcentury social reformer Basaveshwara, saint-poet Kanakadasa, Swami Vivekananda, Dr BR Ambedkar, and the preamble of the Constitution.

A caption in Kannada below the images read: “Not just one rupee, with your one vote, you vote me one day, I will give you freedom from poverty. ”
An arts graduate from Gulbarga University in Kalaburagi district, he declared total assets of Rs 60,000 while his father, Devindrappa, owns one acre and 16 guntas of land (40 guntas equal one acre).
Yankappa said he travelled across the constituency on foot and collected the coins from voters. Election officers took two hours to count the coins.