Deposit of 34 candidates out of the 40 will be forfeited

Out of the 40 contesting candidates in Belagavi, North, South and Rural only 6 candidates have been able to save their deposits and the deposit of all the other 34 candidates will be forfeited.

According to  Section 158 of the Representation of the People Act,1951 a sum of  Rs.10,000/- in the case of an election from an Assembly Constituency. (The amount of deposit is half in the case of a candidate belonging to a scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe) is taken as a security deposit by the Election Commission.
And as per the above rules – “any candidate who gets less than 1/6th of the total votes polled will have his/her security deposit forfeited by the Commission.”

In all the three constituencies only the Number 1,2 have been able to save their deposits.

Hence only Abhay Patil, M D Laxminarayan, Laxmi Hebbalkar, Sanjay Patil, Anil Benake and Fairoz Saith have been able to save their deposits.