EVM direction changed to suit Min’s ‘Vastu’
Kolar: An election official changed the direction of EVM allegedly at the request of candidate and Union Minister KH Muniyappa to make it ‘Vastu’ compliant, following which he was shifted from a polling centre in Kolar lok Sabha constituency. “The official has been shifted from Harohalli polling centre, which is in the city, for changing the direction of the EVM on Muniyappa's request to make it Vastu complaint,” Kolar Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer DK Ravi told reporters.
Namo fever hits social media with 1.26l tweets
As India witnessed the fifth phase polling on 121 seats across 12 States, Twitter went into hyper mode with the total number of elections-related Tweets being pegged at a whopping 6,45,521. The total reach of elections-related Tweets till 5 pm on April 17 was said to be a mindboggling 2.2 billion. BJP's PM candidate ‘Narendra Modi' topped the chart of the top 10 elections-related terms with 1.26 lakh tweets. followed by the 'BJP' and 'AAP' at 68,600 and 48,200 tweets respectively. #myvoteforcongress followed with 47,700 tweets.