Gram panchayat election boycott highlights people’s grievances
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Some villagers in various parts of the State expressed their grievances with the authorities by boycotting the gram panchayat elections on Tuesday.
People of three panchayats in Sakleshpur boycotted the elections opposing the implementation of the K. Kasturirangan report. There was no polling in Heggadde, Hettur, and Hongadahalla gram panchayats.
Similarly, in Mudigere taluk, the residents of two villages — Malemane and Megur — boycotted the polls alleging that the State government had not provided proper relief to flood victims.
In coastal Karnataka, there were no contestants in the 12-seat Kodi Gram Panchayat, which falls under Brahmavar taluk in Udupi district. The villagers boycotted the polls on two issues and ensured that no one filed nomination papers. They were expressing their ire against the non-grant of title deeds and the delay in construction of a fisheries jetty on the back-waters of Seethanadi river.