Mangalore : Former BJP district president and spokesperson Monappa Bhandary, said that Mangalore city mayor election was filled with indiscretion and is considered illegal. 

He said that according to the regional commissioner’s notice on election procedure does include any condition of the compulsory submission of caste certificates to be attached with the nomination files. If it was necessary, then it was the duty of  election officer to inform candidates regarding such requirements.

Bhandary also said that the regional commissioner rejected the caste certificate issued by the tahsildar without any proper clarification and this shows that the election officer had acted as per the external pressure. The election officer’s legal knowledge on this election procedure is very poor, he added.

The District BJP condemns the election commissioner’s decision to reject Roopa D Bangera’s nomination and will take action against it.

Deputy speaker Yogish Bhat MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, District BJP president Padmanabha Kottary, Sudhakar Joshi, the member of the BJP Lawyers’ Forum; and Shrikar Prabhu, the local BJP leader, were also present.