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Congress person T.D. Raje Gowda, who mislaid the Sringeri assembly spot to D.N. Jeevaraj of the BJP following the recount of postal ballots connected May 2, has been visiting places of worship successful the constituency, seeking divine justness successful the ballot number dispute.
On Saturday (May 9, 2026), Mr. Raje Gowda and his associates offered prayers astatine Veerabhadra Swamy Temple, Jamia Masjid, and a religion successful Koppa. At each spot of worship, the Congress person asserted that helium had been denied justness successful the predetermination counting, that neither helium nor his enactment had done thing wrong, and appealed to the Almighty to punish those liable for the wrongdoing.
Congress person Sudhir Kumar Murolli, who served arsenic the party’s counting agent, besides offered prayers, refuting the BJP’s allegation that a bundle of invalid votes had been counted arsenic valid votes polled for the Congress campaigner during the archetypal counting successful 2023. “We person not committed immoderate wrongdoing successful the counting. Those who tampered with the postal votes indispensable beryllium punished,” helium said.
Mr. Raje Gowda had won the Sringeri spot successful the 2023 counting, defeating Jeevaraj by a borderline of 201 votes. Mr. Jeevaraj subsequently moved court, seeking a recount of postal votes. During the recount, 255 votes that had been counted successful favour of Raje Gowda successful the archetypal number were declared invalid, citing aggregate entries. Consequently, Raje Gowda mislaid the spot to Jeevaraj. Since then, Congress leaders person alleged that the postal votes were tampered with to favour the BJP candidate.
BJP leaders besides connected temple run
In an absorbing development, B.S. Sathish and S.N. Ramaswamy — some BJP leaders who had served arsenic counting agents for Jeevaraj successful 2023 — besides visited respective temples, swearing earlier the deities that nary irregularities had taken spot during the archetypal counting, contrary to allegations made by definite sections wrong the BJP.
In a property release, Mr. Sathish said that pursuing the alteration successful last results aft the recount of postal votes connected May 2, a fewer “miscreants” wrong the BJP accused him and Ramaswamy of having helped the opposing campaigner during the 2023 counting.
“Some radical are engaged successful antagonistic campaigning against us. We truthful appeared earlier the deities and solemnly declared that we had done thing incorrect and that the 2023 ballot counting was conducted transparently. There is crushed to fishy however votes that were deemed valid successful 2023 were abruptly rendered invalid during the 2026 recount,” said Mr. Sathish, besides demanding a ceremonial probe into the matter.
Both Sathish and Ramaswamy visited the Veerabhadra Swamy Temple successful Koppa connected May 8, and proceeded to Dharmasthala the pursuing day, wherever they again made solemn declarations earlier the deity, affirming their relation successful a transparent counting process and leaving it to the almighty to justice those who had committed wrongdoing.
