Bengaluru South sitting MP and BJP’s candidate from the identical seat Tejasvi Surya was reported to the chief election officer of Karnataka for importing a video on X by which he requested for votes primarily based on faith.
Karnataka Chief Election Officer tweeted on Friday throughout polling within the essential seat the place Tejasvi Surya MP is working towards Congress’s Sowmya Reddy. He tweeted, case is booked towards Tejasvi Surya MP and Candidate of Bengaluru South PC on 25.04.24 at Jayanagar PS u/s 123(3) for posting a video in ‘X’ deal with and soliciting votes on the bottom of faith.
Tejasvi urged folks to forged votes and make the most of their proper to take action on a number of events. He launched the final video at 2:00 PM, mentioning Ram Mandir along with border safety and Article 370 in his plea to take advantage of the ultimate 4 hours of voting.
Earlier, Tejasvi gave an 80%–20% parallel to implore BJP supporters to end up in massive numbers on the polls. Solely 20% of the BJP’s 80% voter base truly turned as much as vote. C ongress’ voters are 20 % however they arrive out and vote 80%. He added, in most circumstances, that is the precise state of affairs on the polls. Telling the impportance of vote he mentioned that each votes counts. He additionally urged to vote and added when you don’t, then 20% of Congress will undoubtedly be doing so.
In the meantime, Karnataka recorded 50.93% voter turnout until 3pm, with Bengaluru South recording 40.77%. Up until 3 pm, Udupi Chikmagalur had the very best turnout (57.49%), Hassan had the subsequent highest proportion at 55.92%, Dakshina Kannada at 58.76%, Chitradurga at 52.14%, Tumkur at 56.62%, Mandya at 57.44%, Mysore at 53.55%, Chamarajanagar at 54.82%, Bangalore Rural at 49.62%, Bangalore North at 41.12%, Bangalore Central at 40.10%, Bangalore South at 40.775, Chikkballapur 55.90%, and Kolar 54.66%.