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Prakash slams Cong. for remark on AIPJD candidate

By Our Correspondent

KOLAR Sept. 23. The Congress has no right to comment on the candidature of Krishna Byre Gowda, son of late C.Byre Gowda, in the Vemgal Assembly Constituency, which goes to polls on Friday, M.P. Prakash, AIPJD leader, has said.

Mr. Prakash was reacting to the Congress propaganda that Mr. Gowda was a novice in politics. He told presspersons here that it was the Congress which made a pilot (Rajiv Gandhi) the Prime Minister soon after the assassination of Indira Gandhi.

Mr. Prakash expressed confidence that Mr. Gowda would win the Vemgal Assembly seat. The Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, who was perturbed by this, was trying to defeat Mr. Gowda by any means. He alleged that the Congress had been using money, muscle power, and liquor to woo the voters. He charged the Congress with making false promises. He said the ministers, Rani Satish and Motamma, had been going around promising women that their village would get Rs. 50,000 under Stree Shakti programme if they voted for the Congress. Referring to the Government's decision to hold talks with Andhra Pradesh on releasing water, he said releasing water to meeting drinking water requirements was welcome but the quantum of water (50 tmcft.) sought by Andhra Pradesh gave room for suspicion. About the byelection, he claimed that a win for the Janata Parivar would change the political scenario in the State.

Mr. Muninarayanappa, former president of Kolar Zilla Panchayat, G. Ramaraju, former Chairman of the Backward Class Development Corporation, Mangamma Muniswamy, former president of the zilla panchayat, and R. Dayanand, president of the State unit of the Vidyarti Janata Dal, were present.

Arrangements for poll: Meanwhile, the district administration has made arrangements to use electronic voting machines in the byelection from Vemgal.

The Deputy Commissioner and District Returning Officer, B.S. Ramaprasad, told presspersons that steps had been taken to educate voters about the use of electronic voting machines in all villages.

Polling personnel had been trained to use the machines and every effort would be made to hold the elections in a peaceful manner, he said.

In all, 180 polling stations had been set up in six hoblis of Kolar and Chintamani taluks. Seventy-two booths had been declared hypersensitive and 63 sensitive, Mr. Ramaprasad said. A police officer of the tank of Deputy Superintendent of Police would be looking after security arrangements in every hobli. Six platoons of KSRP, 12 platoons of DAR and police would be posted throughout the constituency.

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