A case has been filed against BJP’s Bengaluru South candidate and MP Tejasvi Surya for ‘soliciting votes on ground of religion’. Surya is the BJP’s candidate from Bangalore South which went to polls on Friday in the second phase of polling.
The Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka took to X and said, “Case is booked against 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 handle and soliciting votes on the ground of religion.”
The case against the national president of BJP’s youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha for violation of election code of conduct was registered on Thursday.The Bangalore South seat is a contest between the BJP’s firebrand leader Surya and the Congress’s Sowmya Reddy, who lost the 2023 Assembly polls from Jayanagar by just 16 votes.
Just a few days back, a complaint was filed with the Election Commission against a Congress candidate and some of her party workers for allegedly creating ruckus and heckling Bangalore South MP Tejasvi Surya at an event here, his office said on Monday.
A video of the alleged incident where Surya is seen exiting a venue amid chaos after he was allegedly heckled has gone viral on social media. The complaint was lodged by the organisers of the meeting of the cooperative sector representatives against Congress candidate for Bengaluru South (Sowmya Reddy) and her supporters, Surya’s office said in a release.
Surya made his debut in the 2019 polls and defeated senior Congress leader B K Hariprasad by over 3.30 lakh votes. BJP stalwart and ex-Union minister Ananth Kumar represented it six times between 1996 and 2014.