BJP won by cheating, says Ramanath Rai

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Jan 4: Unwilling to accept the fact that the BJP defeated them in the ZP/TP polls, the DK District Congress (DKDCC) accused the BJP of election malpractice. MLA Ramanath Rai, who is also the president of the District Congress Committee (DCC), said that the BJP played all sorts of foul tricks to ensure its victory, adding that the performance of the Congress party is worth appreciating at this critical juncture.

He also said that thousands of voters, especially those belonging to minority communities, were not permitted to cast their votes because of the manipulations of concerned officers these ZP/TP polls. He accused these officers of deleting thousands of legitimate voters belonging to the minority communities from the voters’ lists, which he termed a disgrace to the state’s democratic set up. According to Mr. Rai, this is the reason for the BJP’s victory.

Nearly 20 – 30 percent of the voters’ list was thus deleted from each voting centre, he alleged. In spite of this, the Congress has been victorious, having foiled the BJP’s strategies in several parts of the district, he added.


Gopal Poojary resigns following Congress defeat in ZP polls

Following the defeat of the Congress party in the recently held Zilla Panchayat (ZP) polls, Gopal Poojary, the district president of Congress, resigned from his post on Jan 4, Tuesday.

The Congress party has been defeated for the first time in Udupi. Poojary had publicly stated that he will resign from his post if the Congress loses the ZP polls.

According to the results of the recently concluded ZP polls, the BJP has won 16 of the total 25 seats while the Congress has won the rest.