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Congress seeks re-poll in Bellary City booths

Bangalore: The KPCC has urged the Election Commission to order re-poll in four booths of Bellary City Assembly constituency as the presiding officers themselves had allegedly been found rigging.

Speaking to presspersons here on Saturday, party spokesmen K.H. Srinivasa and B.L. Shankar said the commission which found one of the presiding officers indulging in the crime had kept him under suspension.

The rigging allegedly took place in booth nos.90, 93, 97 and 106 of the constituency.

Mr. Srinivasa ridiculed the Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman S. Suresh Kumar claim that his party had also made stability the main plank in the third phase of elections.

He said that Congress had no objection if the BJP wanted to borrow its time-tested objective of stability. But, the BJP was required to clarify why it withdrew support to the Janata Dal (S)-led government.

He said that because of this behaviour, the BJP had lost the moral authority to claim that it wanted to provide a stable government.

On the security front, he alleged that it was the BJP that was responsible for spreading terror, which was confined to Jammu and Kashmir, to other parts of the country. Congress, they said, would win in 50 per cent of the Assembly seats for which elections were held in the two phases and would get the required majority in the final phase.

The exit polls had lost credibility because it was impossible to cover a large cross-section of the voters when crores of them had participated in the exercise.

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