Karnataka assembly elections: Code of Conduct violated

• Hours after the Election Commission announced the bypoll schedule, the first model code of conduct violation was reported.

 

• Basaveshwaranagar ward corporator Uma Devi and her husband SH Padmaraj, unveiled the bust of social reformer Lord Basaveshwara in the presence of several Lingayat seers.

 

• Education minister and local MLA S Suresh Kumar and mayor Gangambike Mallikarjun skipped the event apparently due the code.

 

• Uma Devi’s act came to light after pictures and videos of the unveiling ceremony were circulated on social media.

 

• BBMP commissioner and district election officer BH Anil Kumar said that he asked the official to file a complaint of the act.