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Septuagenarian’s ‘name not on rolls’, but elected civic prez

In some sweet news after an unexpected incident during the two-phased rural local body elections held last month, a septuagenarian woman was declared the president of the Ernamangalam village panchayat in Kalasapakkam panchayat union in the district for which vote counting was undertaken on Wednesday.

Septuagenarian’s ‘name not on rolls’, but elected civic prez
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District Election Officer and Collector KS Kandasamy

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The post had two candidates, Panchalai Jayaraman (77) and Manjula Jayasankar, who vied for the total of 1851 votes in the village panchayat.

However, as Panchalai’s name was missing from the draft electoral rolls released recently, she was unable to exercise her franchise and this incident resulted in District Election Officer and Collector KS Kandasamy ordering counting not to be taken up on January 2 when voteswere counted for the rural local body elections.


After an inquiry was conducted by Kandasamy, he ordered that countingbe taken up on Wednesdayand this was done in the Kalasapakkam panchayat union office where Panchalai, who secured 965 votes, was declared electedand awarded the winningcertificate in the presence of the electoral officials present.

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