BJP MLA tells people ‘voting for JD(S) will be like voting for BJP’; video goes viral
Hassan: A video clip of BJP legislator Preetham Gowda stating recently that voting for the JD(S) would be like voting for the BJP has gone viral on social media.
Gowda, who had been addressing a night-time public meeting, is heard on video saying, “I am letting you know that you would be voting for the BJP if you vote for the JD(S).”
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He has also said in the clip, “Former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda has already discussed related matters with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As it is, we all know that the JD(S) would not get more than 25 seats in the Assembly elections this year.”
The video has piqued the curiosity of voters as the Home Minister and senior leader of the BJP Amit Shah said in Bagalkote recently, “Voting for the JD(S) means voting for the Congress,” and also asked the voters to consciously vote for the BJP.”
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Two West Bengal SIR poll officials enter Odisha village ‘mistakenly’; 72 locals held for assaulting
Balasore: At least 72 people, including 23 women, from Rajnagar village in the district have been arrested under charge of assaulting two poll officials from West Bengal, who are suspected to have mistakenly entered their village on Wednesday.
Odisha Police are learned to have said that poll officers Sumit Hazra and Som Hansda, who are bank employees, had been assigned the duty of supervisiing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise at Baliagaria Block under the Nayagram Police Station limits in West Bengal. On Wednesday, however, the duo mistakenly entered the nearby Rajnagar, located under the Raibania Police Station limits in Balasore district, they added.
According to news agencies, Balasore Additional Superintendent of Police Niranjan Behera has said that the returning officers were detained and assaulted by the villagers on account of communication gap. Explaining the incident further, the officer said that Hazra and Hansda approached an auto rickshaw that was on school duty as they were unable to get any other transportation facility to reach Nayagram. “As the rickshaw driver declined to help, they were waiting for an alternate means of transportation, when a rumour was spread that child lifters were working in the area. This gave rise to suspicion among the villagers and led to the assault of Hazra and Hansda,” Behera is learned to have said.
Further, the Addl SP has said that the villagers are learned to have assaulted and detained two police personnel from Raibania Police Station who rushed to Rajnagar to rescue the returning officers. “Additional forces were sent to the village, even as senior police and administrative officers visited Rajnagar to bring the situation under control,” he reportedly added.
Behera also said, “The injured poll officials, after being rescued, were admitted to the local hospital for treatment. Two cases are registered in this regard, one by the poll officials and another by police. More than 100 people have been questioned.”
The investigation team, after verifying the video footage, has held 72 accused, who will be produced before court. Additional security forces have been mobilized in the Raibania Police Station limits to prevent any untoward situation, officials have said.
