Visakhapatnam: Education minister Botsa Satyanarayana has asked the Election Commission to conduct a comprehensive inquiry into the Palnadu incidents and bring out the facts.
Casting doubts on the functioning of the state election authority, Satyanarayana said the victims of the poll-related violence have stated that TD leaders were responsible for the attacks. EVMs were destroyed in nine places in Palnadu but EC has leaked only one webcasting video of all the incidents. Where did EC hide the remaining videos, he asked.
“Why did the state election authority not inform EC the same evening about the incidents in the constituency? It seems EC took a partisan stand.”
He said even now it was not too late for EC to expose all the webcasting videos.
“It was ironic officers appointed by the EC on poll duty were suspended by it. Based on the letters from the alliance partners, EC changed the officers and replaced them with new officers.”
“All the violence on the polling day took place wherever new officers were appointed by EC. It was also found out in the SIT inquiry that the same officers were involved in law violations and they have now been suspended. This has happened for the first time in the country,’’ Botsa said.
Speaking on the poll prospects of the YSRC in north Andhra, Botsa Satyanarayana claimed that his party would win all the nine assembly segments in Vizianagaram district. The polling was one to two per cent more than the previous elections as the people came out of their homes voluntarily to vote for the YSRC, he claimed.
