The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday ordered re-polling at a polling booth in Hanur under the Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha Constituency in Karnataka.
The re-polling will be done at polling booth number 146 in Hanur on April 29.
As per a letter issued by the poll body to the state Chief Electoral Officer, the EC cited the Returning Officer and General Observer’s report for the constituency and all material circumstances, to decide that voting at the polling on Friday would be pronounced as void.
The poll body had to decide on the re-polling after reports of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) allegedly being damaged at the polling station in Indiganatha village in Chamarajanagara district on Friday as two groups of people clashed after a scuffle on whether to vote or not in the Lok Sabha polls.
According to reports, some of the voters were unhappy alleging lack of infrastructural development in the constituency and hence did not want to cast their votes.
Another group of people wanted to vote and insisted on the same, after which a scuffle broke out, resulting in the damage to the EVMs.
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