TN BJP chief Annamalai alleges impersonation, says Union Minister's vote already cast
Chennai, Feb 19: Tamil Nadu BJP unit president K Annamalai on Saturday alleged impersonation saying some one else had already cast the vote of Union Minister of State L Murugan in the urban local body polls.
Murugan later voted at a polling station here and the state unit of the BJP shared related pictures to the media.
The TN BJP chief stuck to his allegation and said the minister was permitted by authorities to vote only after his party's protest.
Annamalai had earlier tweeted, "The level to which official machinery is misused is too obvious today. @arivalayam party members distributing cash right outside polling centre in Coimbatore & across TN. Hon Min Shri @Murugan_MoS avl vote casted by some one else in his polling booth in Anna Nagar East, Chennai."
After the Union minister had voted, Annamalai tweeted saying polling officials allowed Murugan to vote following arguments and protest of his party.
"His serial no:1174 was voted by somebody & after our protest, Election Commision has called their mistake as a Clerical Error'! Totally unacceptable!," Annamalai said.
Voting for the urban civic polls was held in Tamil Nadu on Saturday.
Polling officials have allowed Hon Min Shri @Murugan_MoS avl to vote now
— K.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) February 19, 2022
This is after arguments & protest from @BJP4TamilNadu
His serial no:1174 was voted by somebody & after our protest, Election Commision has called their mistake as a ‘Clerical Error’!
Totally unacceptable!
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
