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Hyderabad:A scuffle broke out at a polling station in Andhra Pradeshs Tenali assembly constituency when the sitting MLA and YSRCP contestant Annabathuni Siva Kumar slapped a voter in the queue line and the voter gave it back in earnest...
The slapping-match occurred in the morning hours of polling when the voter Gottimukkala Sudhakar, standing in the queue at a booth in Ithanagar locality in Tenali, reportedly objected to the MLA jumping the queue-line to cast his vote...
Some of the enraged MLAs men pounced on the person, raining blows on him, which terrified other voters, especially women present in large numbers...
Chief Electoral Officer Mukesh Meena ordered the police to register a case against the MLA and confine him to his residence till the voting is completed on Monday.. Andhra Pradeshs 4.14 crore registered voters are exercising their franchise in the simultaneous polls being held Monday, for the 175 state assembly segments and the 25 Lok Sabha seats...
It is atrociousfor just that he was asked to follow the queue line, the YSRCP MLA and contestant has attacked a voter at Tenali, Naidu said, demanding the officials of the Election Commission to also act on the violent incidents reported from Macherla, Railway Kodur, Punganuru among others...
