BJP alleges fake voting in Haveri MLC polls, seeks arrests

Bengaluru, Oct 30 (UNI) BJP MLA Mahesh Tenginkai on Friday accused the Congress of electoral malpractice in the recent Karnataka West Graduates' Constituency Legislative Council election, alleging that a woman other than the registered voter cast a vote in the name of the wife of Haveri District Congress president Sanjeevkumar Patil alias Neeralagi. Producing a video and other documents to substantiate his allegations, Tenginkai claimed that Shilpa Budenavar had cast the vote in the name of Asha Patil at polling booth number 85, despite the latter not being present at the polling station. Addressing a press conference at the BJP…