Ahead of the Jubliee Hills bypoll in Telangana, fake voter ID cards with photos of actresses Tamannaah Bhatia, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Rakulpreet Singh were found.
Sources said that Election Commission
officials are investigating the matter.
The same address was mentioned in all three voter cards.
The high-stakes bypoll for the Jubilee Hills assembly constituency would take place on November 11, with votes to be counted on November 14. The bypoll is necessitated by the death of BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath in June this year, following a heart attack.
The ruling Congress in Telangana had announced V Naveen Yadav as its candidate, while the opposition BRS fielded Maganti Sunitha, widow of the late MLA. Lankala Deepak Reddy from the BJP is also in the fray.
Earlier, Bharath Rashtra Samithi Working President KT Rama Rao accused the Congress of registering “thousands of fake voters” in the Jubilee Hills constituency.
“The people are very angry with Congress, so they know they won’t get votes. That’s why, in one house, they got 43 fake votes registered. In each house, 43 fake votes. In total, they registered thousands of fake votes. We are doing an exercise on that, we will counter it in whatever way necessary,” KTR said.
