Cong expels Binoy Tamang for support to BP’s Raju Bista
The WBPCC took the decision immediately after Binoy Tamang released a video message today extending his support to the BJP candidate Raju Bista this morning.
In a shocking development, the workers of Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress were allegedly seen distributing cash for votes outside Nalini Raghunatha Rao degree college polling booth in South Bangalore.
According to report in the India Today, while BJP was giving Rs 500 notes to lure in each voter, the Congress handed out Rs 600.
The report added that the Congress workers inspected people’s voters IDs before giving them the money.
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Also Read | Karnataka polls: Around 56 per cent turnout till 3 pm; Siddaramaiah, Yeddyurappa cast votes
Last week, the Karnataka Assembly elections were hit by the fake voter IDs scandal as 9,746 voter ID cards were recovered from a Bengaluru apartment, located in the Raja Rajeshwari Nagar constituency of Bengaluru.
Karnataka’s Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar had confirmed that two trunk-loads of counterfoil strips, which appeared to be the acknowledgement slips of the form used to add names of voters, were also found along with some laptops and a printer.
Meanwhile, people turned out in large numbers to cast their votes as around 56 per cent of the electorate had voted in the ongoing state assembly elections till 3 pm on Saturday. 37 per cent had voted till 1 pm, around 11 per cent had exercised their right in the first two hours of the day.
Read More | Yeddyurappa is mentally disturbed, says Siddaramaiah
Karnataka, which is witnessing a three-cornered contest among the ruling Congress, the BJP and the JD(S), has never witnessed the same government coming to power a second time.
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