Wayanad: Food kits with pictures of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi were seized from the Tholpetty district here on Thursday.
Ahead of the Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll, the food kits were seized by the flying squad of the Election Commission and the police, sources said.
According to sources, the kits were found in the Congress leader's mill during the inspection conducted by the election flying squad. The kits were kept in a mill adjacent to Congress Tirunelli constituency president Sasikumar Tholpetti's house, sources confirmed.
On the kits, it was written that it was for distribution to the landslide victims of Meppadi, Mundakai and Churalmala. The opposition alleged that the kits were distributed by Congress for votes ahead of its upcoming bypoll.
Dismissing all the allegations, Congress claimed that these were the kits brought earlier to be distributed to the survivors of the Wayanad landslides, which took place on July 30.
Priyanka Gandhi is set to contest as the UDF candidate against LDF's Sathyan Mokeri and BJP's Navya Haridas for the Wayanad polls slated for November 13.
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