CCTV footage of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s social gathering MLA damaging an digital voting machine (EVM) within the Macherla meeting constituency has emerged, prompting the Election Commission to order the Andhra Pradesh police chief to take strict felony motion in opposition to the ruling YSRC MLA.
The video that surfaced pertains to the May 13 elections, throughout which seven EVMs had been reportedly broken within the Macherla constituency. Among them was the machine at sales space quantity 202, the place native MLA P Ramakrishna Reddy is accused of vandalising an EVM.
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According to a report by PTI citing an announcement from Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Mukesh Kumar Meena’s workplace, “In Macherla Assembly Constituency, EVMs were damaged in seven polling stations, including the PS no (polling station number) 202 where this incident of damage of EVM by the sitting MLA P Ramakrishna Reddy was recorded in the web camera.” The remark got here late on Tuesday.
The assertion additionally talked about that the identify of the MLA (P Ramakrishna Reddy) has been included as an accused in the course of the investigation.
To support within the ongoing probe, Palnadu district’s election officers supplied footage of the VVPAT vandalism incident. Taking a agency stance on the matter, the election fee instructed the CEO to inform DGP Harish Kumar Gupta to take strict felony motion in opposition to all people concerned.
The southern state of Andhra Pradesh carried out the Lok Sabha elections and Assembly polls on the identical day (May 13). Following which, a number of studies of violence have emerged from numerous areas within the state, together with Palnadu, Tirupati, and Anantapur.
