“Five laptops, scanners and lamination machines and many voter ID cards were burnt before police reached the spot. Still they recovered around 1 lakh counterfoils of Form-6. This shows a deep conspiracy to derail free and fair election,” Union HRD Minister and party’s in-charge for Karnataka polls Prakash Javadekar told the media. Raising a pointing finger at the Congress, he said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) never indulges in such activities, while the former has been doing such activities. The BJP leader claimed that the flat in Jalahalli area in the Rajarajeshwari constituency, where fake voter IDs were allegedly found, was “never rented” and belongs to Manjula Nanjundmuri, who has been assosiated with Congress’s local MLA N. Munirathna. Calling Congress MLA Munirathna “the kingpin”, Union Minister Sadanand Gowda also demanded postponement of voting in the constituency. (IANS)
