Bengaluru Rural Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer K.N. Anuradha.
Bengaluru: Bengaluru Rural Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer K.N. Anuradha has imposed prohibitory orders across the district from 6 pm on October 21 until midnight on October 23 for the 2026 Bengaluru Teachers’ Constituency election. A separate dry-day order will prohibit the sale, distribution and storage of liquor from 4 pm on October 21 until midnight on October 23.
The restrictions are aimed at ensuring peaceful and free polling on October 23. Liquor shops and Karnataka State Beverages Corporation depots across Bengaluru Rural district have been ordered closed during the 48-hour period.
What will be restricted?
Gatherings of five or more people without a valid reason will be barred on public roads, streets, public spaces, buildings and around polling stations. Candidates and supporters also cannot assemble in groups larger than five.
Weapons and objects capable of causing physical harm cannot be carried. Xerox shops, book stalls and cyber cafés near polling stations will face restrictions, while campaigning, posters and banners are prohibited within 200 metres of polling booths on voting day. Mobile phones, cordless phones and other electronic devices will also be barred within the 200-metre zone, except for officials and staff on election duty.
Public protests, strikes, effigy burning, demonstrations, fairs and other gatherings will be prohibited during the order period. Loudspeakers cannot be used. Weddings, auspicious ceremonies, religious programmes, funerals and officially arranged polling centres are exempt.
Public campaigning ends at 6 pm on October 21. People who are not voters in the Bengaluru Teachers’ Constituency have been directed to leave the district limits after the campaign period ends. Violations will invite action under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the district administration said.
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