RK Nagar bypoll: Election Commission accepts actor Vishal's petition
Poll frenzy appears to have already hit RK Nagar as actor Vishal whose nominations were rejected during scrutiny by the EC officials was later accepted after he proved that his supporters were threatened and even lured to change their signatures thus forcing EC officials to cancel his nomination form.
By : migrator
Update: 2017-12-05 18:11 GMT
Chennai
Reports suggest that the Election Commission have accepted Vishal's petition challenging the rejection of his nomination. The Returning Officer has now kept actor Vishal's nomination papers in abeyance
Vishal who recorded the phone conversation with one of his proponents later released the audio clip which went viral in social networking sites. Later, Vishal who addressed the media confirmed that conversation as factual record of what took place earlier in the day.
In the clip, his supporter claimed that he was restrained in a room and was threatened by supporters of AIADMK candidate E Madhusudhanan, who took altered signatures from the proposers to dispute their signatures in the nomination form. The supporter also says that he refused to take the wad of cash offered by Madhusudhanan's supporter S Rajesh in reciprocation.
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