K'taka Bypolls: 30k sarees seized by city police

Mysuru: As many as 30,000 sarees which were allegedly stored to distribute among the voters of Hunsur Assembly segment was seized by the city police.

The police on Saturday raided a house in Vijayanagar and seized 30,000 sarees.

According to the police, 30,000 sarees and handbills of BJP leader C P Yogeshwara was found at the house. Yogeshwara was one of the aspirants of B Form from the BJP but the party decided to field disqualified MLA A H Vishwanath.

Fifteen out of the 17 constituencies represented by these MLAs will be going for by-polls, while by-elections to Maski and RR Nagar constituencies have been withheld as separate cases with regard to them, are pending before the high court.

Sixteen out of the 17 disqualified Congress-JD(S) legislators on Thursday joined the BJP in Bengaluru in the presence of Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa and its state unit chief Nalin Kumar Kateel and National General Secretary in charge of the state P Muralidhar Rao.

All the 13 disqualified MLAs have been repeated from their respective seats.