As the voting is underway in Bangalore Central and Bangalore Rural seats, two of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka are undergoing polls in the second phase. There are allegations of providing inducements to voters against Congress workers.
PC Mohan, the BJP candidate for the Bangalore Central seat, accused the Congress workers of distributing cash among voters in the Gandhinagar Assembly constituency on Thursday late night, a day before polling in the seat.
He also accused the Congress of distributing gift cards in the houses of voters in Bangalore Rural. The BJP leader apprised the Election Commission of the violation of model code of conduct in the constituencies.
According to the media reports, Congress workers were caught distributing gift cards to voters at their doorsteps in the Bangalore Central constituency.
The Bangalore Central Lok Sabha seat had been the BJP’s stronghold since its creation in 2008 and PC Mohan has won the elections thrice from the seat.
The 2024 Lok Sabha elections saw first phase of voting last Friday for 102 seats and 21 states and Union Territories. The voter turnout was recorded at 65.5 %.
In the second phase of polls, voting is underway for all 20 seats of Kerala, 14 of the 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 seats in Rajasthan, 8 seats each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, 7 seats in Madhya Pradesh, 5 seats each in Assam and Bihar, 3 seats each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and 1 seat each in Manipur, Tripura, and Jammu and Kashmir.
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