The Rashtriya Janata Dal on Tuesday alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party polling agents were distributing slips with the photographs of leaders of the ruling National Democratic Alliance, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the party’s election symbol to voters inside polling booths in Bihar’s Motihari Assembly constituency.

Voting in 122 of the 243 Assembly seats was underway on Tuesday in the second and final phase of the Bihar elections.

The Opposition party claimed that such incidents were taking place in booth numbers 229 and 230 and that similar complaints were being received from several other booths in the constituency.

Responding to the allegations, the Election Commission said that a first information report has been registered in the matter.

Two arrests have

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