Bengaluru: Just three days ahead of assembly polls in Karnataka, recovery of 9,476 Electors Photo Identity Card from an apartment in the city’s Jalahalli area of the Raja Rajeshwari Nagar constituency on Wednesday has triggered a spat between the BJP and the Congress.
While accusing the Congress of trying to “rig” the elections, the BJP demanded cancellation of polling in Raja Rajeshwari Nagar, the Congress hit back, saying that a BJP leader was the owner of the flat where voters’ ID cards were recovered.
The development took place hours after former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced off against each other while campaigning in Karnataka. The Prime Minister and the UPA chairperson attacked each other with stinging barbs, with Modi accusing Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi of destroying Congress to save the “dynasty”, and Gandhi saying Modi’s speeches alone could not “fill empty stomachs .”
