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Vatal Nagaraj arrested for trying to lay siege to Election Commission office

Vatal Nagaraj said that he completely supports the fight against use of EVMs and said that even he had experienced the effect of “EVM tampering in the previous election.”

Bengaluru: Pro-Kannada activist Vatal Nagaraj staged a protest in front of the Karnataka Election Commission office demanding officials to look into the issue of EVM rigging and fix it. Nagaraj also tried to lay siege to the EC office and was arrested by police.

"People are saying that they don't have faith in EVMs, but the EC is not bothered about it. Even I have experienced the same issue in the previous election. I completely support the fight against the use of EVMs,” he said.