BJP candidate included 42k fake voters in RR Nagara: K’taka Cong

Bengaluru, Nov 3 : Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president, D.K. Shivakumar has alleged that the ruling BJP candidate N. Muniratna had included 42,000 fake voters into the electoral role of Rajarajeshwari Nagara (RR Nagara) assembly constituency.
Along with RR Nagara, Sira assembly constituency in Tumkuru is also going to polls on November 3.
The bypoll to RR Nagara was necessitated when Muniratna resigned from Congress to join BJP in 2019. He contested on Congress ticket in the 2018 assembly polls.
As part of the ruling BJP strategy, 17 disgruntled Congress and JD(S) MLAs resigned to bring down the Congress-JD(S) coalition government headed by H. D. Kumaraswamy to enable present chief minister B. S. Yediyurappa to take over the state’s reins.
Speaking to reporters, Shivakumar appealed to the Chief Election Commissioner to disqualify Muniratna from elections as he had clandestinely added the names of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh voters illegally into the electoral rolls.
He further claimed that a bogus voters’ list was created by adding names of 56 voters in a single house in the constituency.