TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu, son Nara Lokesh placed under house arrest

Earlier on Wednesday, it was reported that the Andhra Pradesh police had put several TDP leaders under house arrest in view of the party’s call for the ‘Chalo Atmakur’ rally

Telugu Desam Chief N Chandrababu Naidu and his son N Lokesh were placed under house arrest while several party leaders, including MLAs were taken into custody on Wednesday in an bid to stop them from organising an agitation in Guntur district against alleged eviction of some villagers.

Simultaneously, some leaders of the ruling YSR Congress were also detained in Guntur as they too gave a call for a similar programme as a counter to the TDP. The TDP announced that chandrababau Naidu would be observing a day-long fast inside his riverfront residence at Undavalli here in protest against the police action. The TDP President wanted to lead a group of people belonging to Palnadu region of Guntur district to a village called Atmakuru. “I have planned to go to Atmakuru to drop the villagers

who were driven out by YSRC men and police back in their village. This is not an agitation but solidarity with the people who are victims of political factionism,” Naidu, who is the Leader of Opposition in the state assembly, said. Alleging that the TDP was only seeking to create a scene using “paid artists,” the YSRC too gave a call for ‘Chalo Atmakuru’ but police denied permission to both sides and clamped prohibitory orders under Section 144 Cr PC.

Election result: SC dismisses PIL on 100% matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs

SC dismisses PIL seeking 100 % matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs during vote counting on May 23

The Supreme Court on Tuesday expelled a PIL looking for 100 percent coordinating of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) amid tallying of votes on May 23 for Lok Sabha surveys.

A get-away seat headed by Justice Arun Mishra wouldn’t engage the request documented by a Chennai-based association ‘Tech for All’, saying that a bigger seat headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had just managed the issue and passed a request “The CJI had managed this issue. For what reason are you bringing chance under the steady gaze of a two-judge get-away seat,” the zenith court inquired. Likewise READ: Cannot censure EC, decisions directed splendidly: Pranab Mukherjee

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“We can’t abrogate the CJI’s structure… This is garbage. The appeal is accepted. Rejected,” Justice Mishra said. The peak court had on May 7 expelled an audit supplication documented by 21 Opposition pioneers driven by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu looking for that arbitrary coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs be expanded to 50 percent.

The top court had on April 8 guided the Election Commission to expand arbitrary coordinating of VVPAT slips with EVMs from one to five surveying stalls for each gathering section in Lok Sabha surveys, saying it would give more prominent fulfillment to ideological groups as well as to the whole electorate…