Bengaluru: With BJP and JD(S) petitioning the Election Commission of India yesterday night to countermand the election in the Rajarajeshwari Nagar constituency in Bengaluru following the seizure of a huge number of voter ID cards and numbered counterfoils from an apartment in Jalahalli, Chief Electoral Officer Sanjiv Kumar, while promising firm action, said, “We cannot yet decide whether to countermand the polls in Rajarajeshwari Nagar. We’ll know that only after the probe is completed.” He added that the house belongs to a woman named Manjula Nanjamuri, who had rented it out.
The voter ID cards were among thousands more allegedly burnt by supporters of local Congress MLA Munirathna under which this area falls, when BJP and JD(S) workers descended on the place — #115, SLV Parkview Apartments in Sharadambha Nagar, Jalahalli.
