Accusing the BJP of bribing voters/legislators in the election to the post of President, the Congress on Tuesday complained to the Election Commission against the NDA Presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and sought declaration of all votes polled in favour of Ms. Murmu in Bengaluru as invalid.
The BJP legislators were summoned to a five-star hotel on July 17, the Congress said, adding that the legislators were provided with rooms, food, liquor, beverages, entertainment in the hotel in the guise of training the legislators on voting in the Presidential election. On July 18, the BJP legislators were brought to Vidhana Soudha where polling was being held in an air-conditioned bus from the hotel, the Congress pointed out in a complaint to the Chief Electoral Officer of Karnataka.
The complaint signed by Congress Legislative Party leader Siddaramaiah, Leader of the Opposition in Legislative Council B.K. Hariprasad and KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar, was submitted by a Congress delegation comprising former Minister H.M. Revanna and former MP V.S. Ugrappa, among others.
