BJP member S.R. Harish Acharya who turned ‘rebel’ and announced on Tuesday that he will contest the Legislative Council polls from South West Teachers’ Constituency said that some teachers told him that “money, liquor and inducement” were used in the last elections under the constituency.
Addressing presspersons, he said that according to the teachers, the three played a pivotal role in the last elections in the constituency.
Expressing concern over their use in a teachers’ constituency, Mr. Acharya, who said that he will file his nomination papers on Wednesday, added that the constituency as a whole had about 22,000 voters, the list of which is yet to be finalised. Dakshina Kannada had about 8,000 voters and there are about 3,750 votes in Udupi district under the constituency.
