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Polling Interrupted after BJP Candidate ‘Vandalises’ EVM in Odisha
Police in Odisha detained BJP’s Khurda MLA candidate Prasanta Jagadev for allegedly vandalising an electronic voting machine (EVM), which affected polling during the sixth phase on Saturday.
Jagadev, along with some of his supporters, had gone to a polling booth at Kuanripatna in Begunua assembly constituency while polling was underway in the afternoon.
He had an argument with polling officials, following which he allegedly vandalised the EVM and left.
He was chased by the police and his vehicle, in which BJP’s Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha candidate Aparajita Sarangi was also present, was intercepted.
Jagadev, who has made news for his unruly conduct in the past too, has been detained at Begunia police station.
Source: Polling interrupted after BJP candidate ‘vandalises’ EVM in Odisha