According to sources Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has written to the Chief Electoral Officer, saying 30% of the EVMs were not functioning till 10 am, according to the reports he had received. Meanwhile demanding re-polling, he claimed that in some polling stations, votes for TDP were being recorded for YSR Congress. Naidu wrote "It is likely that many voters who returned home without voting may not come back even if polling is resumed after replacement/repair of the existing EVMs and therefore, repolling is needed at all polling stations where voting had not commence till 9.30 am”.
Furthermore TDP minister Akhila Priya Bhuma, whose husband Bhargab and sister Mounika, were injured in a violent clash between TDP and YSRCP workers in Ahobilam, is seeking re-election from Allagadda Assembly constituency. Apparently YSRCP candidate Gangula Pratap Reddy switched loyalties between TDP and YSRCP in the last couple of years. Both Bhuma and Gangula are influential in Allagadda, notorious for party violence.
Moreover clashes between TDP and YSRCP party workers are being reported from various places of Andhra Pradesh. Polling equipment was destroyed in Srinivasapuram village in Guntur's Gurazala mandal in one such case of violence. Hence in another brawl in Gudemcheruvu village in Jammalamadugu (Kadapa district), an YSR Congress worker was injured. Further in a stone pelting incident between the opposing party workers in Ponnathota of the same mandal, a few people were injured and also similar news is coming in from Mydukur constituency.
