KALABURAGI: The Legislative Council polls from the Northeast Graduates constituency received good response on Friday, recording 70.13% voting in Bidar, Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Raichur, Koppal and Ballari districts, and Harapanahalli taluk of Davangere district. Ballot boxes from all the six districts and Harapanahalli taluk are expected to reach Gulbarga University by Friday midnight, and these will be kept in the strongroom under high police security. Counting of votes will be held here from 8 am on Tuesday.
Though Kalaburagi district has the highest number of voters, it recorded the lowest turnout. This can be partly attributed to the fact that none of the political parties fielded candidates from the district. Ten candidates, including Chandrashekhar Patil from Congress, K B Srinivas from BJP, N Pratap Reddy from JD(S) and Vatal Nagaraj from Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha, are in the fray.
Man distributing silver coins to voters arrested
Kalaburagi: BJP workers caught a person while he was allegedly distributing silver coins to graduate voters allegedly in favour of JD(S) candidate Pratap Reddy, and handed him over to the police. The incident occurred at Wadi town of Chittapur taluk on Friday. The BJP workers recovered 48 silver coins from Bhaskar Reddy.