Altercation between Congress and BJP workers over SIR in Belagavi

Tension prevailed in Belagavi for some time after workers of the BJP and Congress got into an altercation regarding the irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in the State.

Some Congress workers alleged that Ravi Patil, a BJP leader, was using his hospital staff to remove a large number of names from the voters’ list, especially those from Muslim families.

Aman Sait, a youth Congress leader, at the governance Urdu school in Veerabhadra Nagar, alleged that Dr. Patil fudged documents to create a large number of Form 7 applications to delete the names of eligible voters.