A campaign, aimed at providing information about the civic poll candidates, has mysteriously disappeared from the polling process.

No one has a clue what happened to the much-hyped Know Your Candidate (KYC) campaign, entailing posters with names and nomination details of all candidates.

The posters were to be pasted at 10 public places in the respective wards of the candidates. The campaign was supposed to commence from May 8 but citizens are not able to find such posters till date.

“I have not seen any such poster anywhere in the city. These posters would have been an authentic source of information about the candidates. I am sad that no such action has been taken till date,” said Ravi Kumar, a resident of ward number 2.

The officer concerned, however, claimed that the work to paste the posters is under progress. “I had provided the details of all the candidates contesting in the upcoming civic polls to the election officers of the different areas. They were required to print the posters and paste them in particular wards and I believe the officers must be on the job,” said Arvind Kumar Tiwari, returning officer for Patna district.

The election officers concerned claim that they have taken the assistance of Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) workforce for conducting the KYC campaign. “The posters have been printed and they must be getting pasted across the city. We have distributed some of the task under the KYC campaign to the PMC and our people are also pasting the posters at several places,” said Sanjay Mishra, an election officer from Patna. When told that the posters are not visible anywhere in the city, Sanjay said he would enquire and get feedbacks from the ground level-officers on the campaign.

Joint election commissioner Ahibhushan Pandey said he would conduct an inquiry into this matter.

The civic society, on the other hand, accused the authorities of laxity in executing this campaign. “Only three days are left for the polls and no such posters are visible anywhere in the city. This shows the laxity on the part of both the administration,” said Dr Ratnesh Chaudhary, the Bihar co-ordinator of India Against Corruption.