Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy cancels Delhi visit

Bengaluru, May 21

Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has cancelled his scheduled visit to Delhi on Tuesday, where he was expected to take part in a meeting of opposition leaders over the issue of Electronic Voting Machines (EVM), official sources said.

“The proposed visit of the Chief Minister to New Delhi today stands cancelled,” the CMO said, without specifying any reasons.

According to the schedule of the CM shared with the media earlier, Kumaraswamy was to leave for Delhi by a special flight at 11 am and take part in meetings there, before heading back to the city in the evening.

According to JD(S) sources, the CM was to take part in the meeting of opposition leaders over the EVM issue.

Ahead of the Lok Sabha poll results on May 23, leaders of various opposition parties would meet the Election Commission (EC) and raise the issue of tallying paper trail of votes (VVPATs) with EVM figures.

Opposition parties are demanding tallying of VVPAT slips with EVM figures in an entire Assembly constituency in case a discrepancy is found in any polling booth. PTI