Hyderabad: Case registered against BJP candidate Madhavi Latha after video of her checking voter ID cards surfaces

A case is registered in Malakpet Police Station, Hyderabad, against Madhavi Latha, the contesting candidate, BJP under sections 171C, 186, 505(1)(c) of IPC and Section 132 of the Representation of the People Act.

This has come in response to the viral video in circulation where Madhavi Latha is verifying the id cards of the voters in waiting at the polling booth in her constituency.  She is touring various polling booths in the constituency.

She is highlighting major discrepancies in the voter list in the Hyderabad LS Constituency.

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Speaking to media, she justified her action, by saying this is her right as contestant and the officials on duty are not following their orders to check the documents of people in line, especially women voters.

She said, “Hyderabad police did not want to instruct female constables to check their face with the voter ID”

“Constable Gurunath said he won’t check face, it is not his responsibility. He said he even won’t ask women constables to check face”.

Amid low voter turnout in Hyderabad, volunteers went door-to-door in several localities to urge people to cast their vote in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

Madhavi Latha cast her vote at the Amrita Vidyalayam polling station in Hyderabad for the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections and asserted that “Sabka Sath mai hi Sabka Vikas Hai.”

Madhavi Latha is pitted against a formidable opponent in the form of four-time Lok Sabha MP and AIMIM chief, Asaduddin Owaisi, from Hyderabad Lok Sabha Constituency, and BRS’ Gaddam Srinivas Yadav.

This is the first time that the BJP has fielded a female candidate from the Hyderabad constituency. Voting for the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections in 96 Parliamentary Constituencies across nine states and one Union Territory got underway today at 7:00 am.