A legal complaint has been lodged against Tejasvi Surya, the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate from Bengaluru South and incumbent Member of Parliament, for allegedly appealing for votes based on religious affiliations. The Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer released a statement via the microblogging platform X, asserting that Mr. Surya had shared a video on social media explicitly soliciting votes on religious grounds. The case has been officially registered with the Jayanagar police station in Bengaluru.
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00:00 Voting for 88 constituencies in the second phase of the 18th Lok Sabha elections across
00:06 13 states and Union territories began this morning.
00:09 Over 1200 candidates, including four candidates from outer Manipur, are contesting the polls.
00:14 At 5 pm, 60.7% voter turnout was recorded across 13 states and Union territories.
00:19 Manipur, Chhattisgarh, Bengal, Assam and Tripura recorded over 70% voter turnout, while Uttar
00:25 Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra recorded the lowest turnout at 52.6%, 53% and 53.5% respectively.
00:34 The prominent contestants in the fray for the second phase are Union Minister Rajiv
00:38 Chandrasekhar, BJP's Tejasvi Surya, Hema Malini and Arun Govil, Congress leader Rahul
00:43 Gandhi and Shashi Tharoor, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D.K.
00:47 Shiv Kumar's brother D.K.
00:49 Suresh and former Karnataka Chief Minister H.D.
00:52 Kumaraswamy.
00:53 In 2019, the NDA had won 56 out of the 89 seats and the UPA 24.
00:58 Six of these seats have been withdrawn as part of the delimitation exercise.
01:02 Out of the seven stages, the first phase of the elections were held last Friday for 102
01:07 seats across 21 states and UTs.
01:09 The polls saw a voter turnout of around 65.5%.
01:12 Meanwhile, in a major development, a legal complaint has been lodged against Tejasvi
01:18 Surya, the Bharatiya Chanda Party's candidate from Bengaluru South and incumbent Member
01:22 of Parliament, for allegedly appealing for votes based on religious affiliations.
01:27 The Karnataka Chief Electoral Officer released a statement via the microblogging platform
01:31 X, asserting that Mr. Surya had shared a video on social media explicitly soliciting votes
01:37 on religious grounds.
01:38 The case has been officially registered with the Jayanagar Police Station in Bengaluru.
01:43 After voting, Mr. Surya told reporters that the Congress Party may not win more than 30
01:47 seats in the Lok Sabha polls.
01:49 The Congress Party has become absolutely frustrated.
01:51 Survey after survey shows that it may not win more than 30 seats.
01:54 The more personal attacks and baseless allegations they make against the Prime Minister, history
01:58 has shown that the Prime Minister has only got stronger and the BJP has only got more
02:03 popular, Mr. Surya told news agency ANI.
02:06 The Congress has fielded Swamy Reddy in the Bengaluru South constituency.
02:11 Mr. Surya said more senior citizens are voting this year and urged young people to come out
02:15 and vote in large numbers.
02:16 "Today is a celebration day in Karnataka.
02:18 It is a festival of democracy.
02:20 Millions of people will go out and vote.
02:22 This is not just a right but also a duty because if we don't vote, we are not registering
02:26 a voice and contributing meaningfully to a democracy," he told ANI.
02:30 In the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections, Karnataka witnessed voting on 14 constituencies
02:34 today.
02:35 This phase encompassed a total of 88 Lok Sabha seats spread across 13 states and duties.
02:40 The Election Commission reported a massive turnout, with over 15.88 crore individuals
02:44 exercising their right to vote during this phase.
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