Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar
Bengaluru: Instances of name mismatch in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls continue to create waves of confusion among VIP families. Days after Bharat Ratna CNR Rao and actor Shivarajkumar figured in the verification exercise, it’s the turn of the Karnataka chief minister’s mother and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani to produce documents over logical discrepancies in voter records.
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Bengaluru South district election officers said the name of DK Shivakumar ’s mother Gowramma was flagged for mismatch in Kanakapura assembly constituency. Reports on the visual media are not factually correct,” an officer said. Officials said three voters named Gowramma are listed in part no. Officials said notices had been generated for Nilekani and his family under the no-mapping category. Ramesh KN, additional district election officer, Bengaluru South, said there was confusion over reports of notices issued to Zerodha founders Nikhil and Nithin Kamath. “We are verifying whether notices were generated in their names,” he said.
However, she was not among those served notice. “The confusion arose from names with similar spellings. The CM’s mother, Gowramma w/o Kempegowda, is listed at serial no. Notices were issued to the other two voters with the same name. In the case of the Nilekanis, SIR verification was completed Thursday. Officials from Bengaluru South City Corporation and urban district administration contacted their mother, Revathi Kamath, who clarified that the family had not received any notices. Nithin, Nikhil and Revathi Kamath have been flagged over parents’ name mismatch in Bengaluru South constituency.