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Hyderabad: BRS leaders on Wednesday lodged a formal complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during the Jubilee Hills by-election campaign. They demanded that the ECI remove Revanth Reddy as a star campaigner, disqualify Congress candidate Naveen Yadav and deploy central forces instead of the State police to ensure free and fair polling. "We have no faith in the State police, who are openly working in favour of the Congress government," said former Minister and senior BRS MLA Gangula Kamalakar. T he BRS delegation led by Kamalakar, MP Vaddiraju Ravichandra and other leaders lodged their complaints with the Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana. Speaking on the occasion, the former Minister said the Chief Minister made promises to film industry workers at a meeting in Yousufguda, in a clear legal violation. The BRS delegation submitted evidence in the form of a pen drive and urged the Commission to take suo motu action. He also complained that Congress candidate Naveen Yadav was issuing death threats to political rivals in the constituency, while neither the police nor the ECI acted on complaints. He accused the Chief Minister of misusing power to influence voters. BRS leaders including Peddi Sudarshan Reddy, Pochampally Srinivas Reddy, Vaddiraju Ravichandra and Padi Kaushik Reddy, also voiced their concerns in this regard. They accused the Congress of creating unrest and using police to threaten voters and opposition party activists. They said the Congress campaign had descended into chaos, with internal clashes among its own cadres. "The police are responding only to the gestures of local rowdies, not to the complaints filed through the C-Vigil app," they added. The BRS delegation, including former ministers Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Dasyam Vinay Bhaskar and MLC Shambhipur Raju, demanded that the Election Commission appoint special observers, deploy central forces and ensure free and fair polling in the Jubilee Hills by-election.
