Daijiworld Media Network – Karkala
Pics: Shekar Ajekar
Karkala, May 16: Former MLAs Sunil Kumar and Gopal Bhandary of this constituency, union minister of state for labour Oscar Fernandes, district Congress president M A Gafoor and others visited the bereaved family of Bhoja Shetty and Suresh Shetty, on Friday May 16 morning, who were killed by Naxals between on Thursday May 15.
Despite the terror tactics pursued by Naxals in some of the areas in the taluk, voting was in progress as normal, without the occurence of any untoward incidence. Naxals were known to have distributed handbills in some of the small towns urging the locals to boycott the polls. However, they were targeted by the personnel of central paramilitary force and Anti-Naxal Force (ANF), thereby providing maximum security to polling centres to enable free and fair polling by the voters.
Moreover, all the constituencies across the taluk recorded excellent voters' turnout despite the Naxal attack.
A certain voter Appy Moolya (65) died of cardiac arrest at the polling centre of Nallur Pucchebettu.
Voters' turnout was fairly good at Muroor polling centre which comes under Ajekar in the taluk.
Police personnel were cited all along the state highway leading to Agumbe from Ajekar, to thwart any intrusion by Naxals to nearby villages.
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