New Delhi: The Election Commission has recommended to President Ram Nath Kovind that elections in Vellore parliamentary constituency scheduled to be held on Thursday be cancelled, after a large sum of cash was allegedly seized from a DMK candidate’s office a few days ago, sources said.
It is not clear whether bye-elections in two Assembly seats – Ambur and Gudiyattam – under the Vellore Lok Sabha seat will also be countermanded or go as planned on Thursday. The Rashtrapati Bhavan reportedly received the poll body’s proposal to cancel polls in the seat on Monday night and the same would be shared with the Law Ministry on Tuesday.
The district police had filed a complaint against DMK candidate Kathir Anand who is the DMK candidate in Vellore as well as two party functionaries on the basis of a report from the Income Tax department on April 10.
