Dharwad
KPCC member Robert Daddapuri and other Congress leaders have urged the Deputy Commissioner and the district election officer not to appoint non-teaching staff of Karnatak University for election duty as Booth Level Officers (BLOs). In a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, Robert said Karnatak University is already facing acute shortage of non-teaching staff, and work at the university is getting hampered.
Under such circumstances, deputing the staff on election duty when the semester examinations are in progress will inconvenience the students and teachers. The matter has been brought to the notice of the district administration several times over the last two years, but the administration has been adamant, the memorandum said. Robert said Atmanand Badiger, non-teaching staff at Karnataka Science College here, who was appointed as BLO, could not report on the scheduled date for the election-related work due to heavy work at the college. The election officers at HDMC harassed him, prompting him to attempt suicide. The Deputy Commissioner should immediately suspend the HDMC election officials concerned, failing which we will launch an agitation, Robert said.
