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Rahul Dravid will not be able to vote in Lok Sabha election, here is why

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Cricket icon Rahul Dravid, who was named as the Karnataka election body's ambassador for voting in the national election, will not be able to cast own vote this week. His name has been deleted from the voters' list. A senior polling officer told NDTV that the cricketer did not submit the application for transfer of constituency before the deadline.

The former Indian captain was a registered voter in Bangalore Central parliamentary constituency when he lived in his paternal home in Indira Nagar. After moving out of the neighbourood to Malleswaram, his name was not added to the voters' list in the constituency of Bangalore North under which Malleswaram falls.

Bengaluru's civic body chief, who is also the returning officer Bengaluru, told NDTV that Rahul Dravid could not fill up the form on time as he was outside the country.