Bihar panchayat election result: A man contests and wins the poll after death, verdict to be nullified

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oi-Prakash KL

Jamui (Bihar), Nov 27: A lifeless particular person has emerged victorious in a Panchayat election held on Wednesday. The reality of his loss of life got here to mild when the officers have been handing over certificates to candidates who gained the polls held on November 24.

Sohan Murmu, who gained ward no. 2 of Deepakarhar village, falling underneath Khaira block, failed to show up earlier than the officers when his identify was referred to as.”On enquiry, we learnt that Murmu had died on November 6, greater than a fortnight earlier than voting befell”, Khaira BDO Raghavendra Tripathi stated with a way of bewilderment.

The realm occurs to be a distant hamlet located alongside the state’s border with Jharkhand.

“Relations of Murmu, who defeated his rival by 28 votes, stated it was the final want of the deceased, who had been ailing, to win the election. In order that they stored quiet. No resident of the village knowledgeable us both. It seems that all of them voted in his favour to honour his final want”, stated the BDO.

Nevertheless, the choice to elect a lifeless man lead to extra for for the officers. “The winner’s certificates can’t be issued to anyone. We’re going to write to the state election with the request that election for the ward involved be nullified and recent polls held”, stated Tripathi in a matter of reality means.

The place the place real-life tragicomedy was detected within the impoverished district, is located about 200 kms from the state capital and it has predominantly tribal inhabitants.

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Outdated residents additionally recall that it was this village which was first hit by Naxal exercise, within the Nineties, within the district that later turned one of many worst infested by ultra-Left insurgency, in response to a listing printed by the Union Residence Ministry just a few years in the past. Nonetheless, Tripathi’s account of what has occurred means that the village and its residents retain a tremendous simplicity, bordering on downright sentimentality. PTI