Times of India
Mysore, Apr 28: The district officials on Sunday came snapping at the heels of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, who motored about the Mysore district electioneering in vehicles which didn’t have poll permits. The officials confiscated vehicles used by the former CM during campaigning in the Varun assembly segment here.
The action had a slice of high drama as Yeddyurappa got off the vehicle minutes before it was seized. Three other vehicles — two used during Yeddyurappa’s roadathon and a third by former MLC C Ramesh — have since been seized.
At daybreak, the former CM launched his election tour and arrived at former minister M Mahadev’s residence. Then he left for Hadinaru in the Varuna segment in a Bangalore-registered fourwheeler, campaigned in an open vehicle and was readying to get to the helipad when the district administration began the crackdown.
Since the vehicles used by Yeddyurappa didn’t have the requisite permit to be used for electioneering, the BJP workers brought in another vehicle.
As Yeddyurappa boarded the vehicle to reach the helipad, the party workers whispered to him the costly lapse. Immediately, Yeddyurappa got off and hopped into another one which had permission. As the vehicle whirred away in a cloud of dust, sector executive magistrate intercepted the vehicle between Hulimavu and Hadinaru and confiscated it.
Later, the official spread the legal trawler wider, netting two more vehicles at the helipad for poll code violation.