ANANTAPUR: A tense situation was evident at several parts of Anantapur Municipal Corporation and other municipalities in Anantapur and Satya Sai district during the polling on Sunday.
YSRC cadres blamed urban MLA Daggupati Prasad of TD and BJP cadres over alleged electoral malpractices in several divisions. A video of an alliance agent casting votes for BJP mayoral candidate by force after threatening the opposite party agents went viral on social media.
Naik Nagar was tense after TD cadres led by former deputy mayor M Ganganna’s aides attacked YSRC candidate Chandrasekhar and his close aides and they reportedly resisted them. Police resorted to a lathi-charge at the Naik Nagar.
Similarly, there was a police lathicharge on supporters of both parties at the Law College and Ambedkar Nagar areas after situations for a clash developed. The two sides accused each other of electoral malpractices.
YSRC district president Ananta Venkatrami Reddy along with mayoral candidate BC Ramesh Gowd had a heated argument with the police over grant of permission to TD urban MLA Daggupati Prasad and his men into polling stations. Ramesh Reddy demanded a re-poll in the divisions where TD MLA and BJP leaders entered polling stations
and were allegedly involved in rigging.
Additional forces have been posted at all sensitive divisions and other municipalities in Anantapur and Satya Sai districts. A tense situation was evident in Dharmavaram where BJP and Jana Sena cadres attacked each other over the presence of rebels in the fray. Police dispersed the mob after a lathi-charge at Dharmavaram municipality in Satya Sai district.
According to reports , the Anantapur municipal corporation recorded 53.19 per cent polling, while Rayadurgam municipality recorded a 75.72 per cent, the highest polling, followed by Kalyandurgam with 69.76 and Tadipathri municipality with 65.53 per cent polling. The Tadipathri municipal polls went off peacefully with no incident reported.
In Hindupur municipality, film star and local MLA Nandamuri Balakrishna cast his vote along with his wife Vasundhara in the 8th ward of Hindupur municipality in Satya Sai district.
Anantapur collector Anand and SP Jagadeesh monitored the poll process by using new technology and CC cameras.
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