The controversy over the packets labelled "Namo Foods" triggered row earlier today as the opposition raised objection and filed a complaint with the election body, even after the local police said the packs only displayed the name of food shop.
Addressing a public meeting in favour of the Congress-JD(S) alliance candidate Prajwal Revanna at Kaduru in Chikkamagaluru, Siddaramaiah said, "Not a single vote of Dalits, backward castes and Muslims should go to the BJP."
Election officials said voter turnout was high at most places, while poll-related violence saw death of two persons in Andhra Pradesh and complaints poured in from various states about glitches in electronic voting machines and of names missing from the voter lists.
Residents of Digothi and Lodal villages in Tehri district did not vote saying they did not get a road and other facilities.
Attorney General K.K Venugopal said that stringent safeguards were already in place in the KYC verification guidelines of the purchaser of electoral bonds.
The clash broke out outside a polling booth at Pipsorang, District Electoral Officer Santosh Kumar Rai said. Further details were awaited as telecommunication connectivity in the area was bad, the official said.
The flood of Twitter posts reporting names going missing from the electoral rolls began after Shobana Kamineni, Vice Chairperson of Apollo Hospitals, tweeted that she found her name disappear from the list at a polling booth in Hyderabad.
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