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The Congress party’s State working president N. Thulasi Reddy on Sunday said the YSRCP had reduced the byelection to the Tirupati Lok Sabha seat to a farce.
“It was a broad daylight murder of democracy with the ruling party leaders unleashing total anarchy,” he said in a statement.
He said thousands of “fake voters” were brought in buses and other vehicles, who resorted to gross violation of the poll code.
At several places, the opposition party leaders had caught red-handed dozens of “fake voters” standing in queues outside the polling booths with fake voter cards. They were unable to tell their names, or the names of their parents, he said.
‘Police remained mute spectators to massive irregularities’
BJP State president Somu Veerraju on Sunday demanded that the byelection to the Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency conducted on Saturday be cancelled and a repoll held as bogus votes were cast on a large scale.
Addressing the media here, Mr. Veerraju alleged that the Ministers and YSRCP leaders had violated the Model Code of Conduct right under the nose of the officials of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the security forces.
Mr. Veerraju also alleged that the police had remained mute spectators to the “massive irregularities” and that the CRPF personnel were not seen around.