A Jana Sena Party candidate from Guntakal in Andhra Pradesh was arrested after he damaged an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) on Thursday as polling for the 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175-member Assembly was underway in the State. Madhusudan Gupta, Jana Sena candidate for was arrested for Guntakal Assembly constituency, broke an EVM at Gooty.
Mr. Gupta, who had come to cast his vote at the polling station in Gutti, was angry with the polling staff over names of Assembly and Parliament constituencies not being displayed properly.
He lifted the EVM and threw it on the floor. The machine was damaged in the incident. Gupta was immediately arrested after the incident, the police added.
Anantapur district registered just 10.62% of polling by 9 am, since voting got delayed in several places and violence raised its head.
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