Karnataka: What action taken on seizure of saris, asks Siddaramaiah

Mysuru: The Congress continued to question the Election Commission over the seizure of 30,000 saris in the city with former chief minister Siddaramaiah asking what action the district administration has taken to curb the electoral malpractices.

According to sources, the officials have not revealed who had stored the sarees.

Though it is clear that photographs of BJP candidate AH Vishwanath and BJP leader CP Yogeshwar along with election material of BJP were recovered from the site, the EC has not taken serious note of it. “What more proof of electoral malpractices do they require? The EC should take serious note of it,” he said.

This comes a day after the Congress leaders staged a dharna at DC’s office accusing the district administration of failure to curb electoral malpractices by the opponents.

However, minister B Sreeramulu, who is in-charge of Hunsur assembly segment, denied the charges and said people are looking forward to defeat Congress and JD(S) at its stronghold. The people are eager to elect BJP in Hunsur as party candidate Vishwanath is pro-OBC. He resigned as he was disillusioned with the coalition government and is now facing them again. The people have understood this and are eager to support him, he stated.

Vishwanath, Dhruvanarayan meet at hospital

When former minister AH Vishwanath, an ex-Congressman for four decades, bumped into R Dhruvanarayana, his one-time colleague in Parliament, on Thursday, he spoke to him jovially and recollected his old days. The two leaders were at the private hospital where former Congress minister Tanveer Sait is undergoing treatment.

Vishwanath called on Sait and was leaving when he accidentally met former MP Dhruvanarayana. When Vishwanath was the Congress MP from Mysuru , Dhruvanarayana represented neighbouring reserved segment of Chamarajanagar. The dalit leader reminded Vishwanath that he had asked him not to quit the party. Pat came the reply from Vishwanath: “I didn’t quit Congress but was edged out by former chief minister Siddaramaiah.” The two spent a couple of minutes talking to each other.