Amaravati: A Jana Sena Party (JSP) candidate in Andhra Pradesh was arrested after he damaged an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) on Thursday, as polling for the 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175-member Assembly was underway in the state.
Madhusudan Gupta reportedly threw the EVM on the floor at a polling station in the Guntakal Assembly constituency of Anantapur district, the police had said.
Gupta, who had come to cast his vote at the polling station in Gooty, was angry with the polling staff over names of Assembly and Parliament constituencies and alleged that they were not being displayed properly.
He further lifted the EVM and threw it on the floor and the machine was damaged in the incident. Gupta was immediately arrested after the incident, the police added.
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