YSRCP succeeded in manipulating Tirupati byelection: Veerraju

BJP State president Somu Veerraju on Sunday demanded that the byelection to the Tirupati Lok Sabha constituency carried out on Saturday be cancelled and a repoll held as bogus votes had been solid on a big scale.

Addressing the media right here, Mr. Veerraju alleged that the Ministers and YSRCP leaders had violated the Model Code of Conduct proper beneath the nostril of the officers of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the safety forces.

Mr. Veerraju additionally alleged that the police had remained mute spectators to the “massive irregularities” and that the CRPF personnel weren’t seen round.

Mr. Veerraju additional alleged that the voters had been threatened by the volunteers, and celebration brokers had been silenced by totally different means by the ruling celebration leaders.

“Several Ministers, MLAs and chairpersons of various corporations camped in the temple town to manipulate the election, and they succeeded in it to a major extent as the police kept quiet. The election observer, Dinesh Patel, too seemed to have not bothered much,” Mr. Veerraju alleged.

Minister P. Ramachandra Reddy addressed the media even because the election was beneath approach, the BJP chief alleged.

Mr. Ramachandra Reddy’s declare that the bogus voters, who had been first uncovered by the BJP and the TDP later, had been on a pilgrimage to the abode of Lord Venkateswara turned out to be lies because the ‘sarva darshan’ had been suspended by the TTD just a few days in the past, Mr. Veerraju stated.

The BJP chief alleged the borders of Tirupati constituency had not been sealed and those that dared to query the irregularities had been implicated in false circumstances.

The BJP had lodged complaints in all of the Assembly segments in the parliamentary constituency and would take the irregularities to the ECI’s discover, he stated.