Lok Sabha elections 2019: Jana Sena candidate Madhusudan Gupta arrested for damaging EVM in Andhra Pradesh

Madhusudan Gupta threw the EVM on the floor at a polling station in the Guntakal Assembly constituency of Anantapur district, the police said.

A Jana Sena Party candidate in Andhra Pradesh was arrested after he damaged an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) on Thursday as polling for the 25 Lok Sabha seats and 175-member Assembly was underway in the state.

Gupta, who had come to cast his vote at the polling station in Gutti, was angry with the polling staff over names of Assembly and Parliament constituencies not being displayed properly. (PTI File)

Madhusudan Gupta threw the EVM on the floor at a polling station in the Guntakal Assembly constituency of Anantapur district, the police said.

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Gupta, who had come to cast his vote at the polling station in Gutti, was angry with the polling staff over names of Assembly and Parliament constituencies not being displayed properly.

He lifted the EVM and threw it on the floor. The machine was damaged in the incident. Gupta was immediately arrested after the incident, the police added.

Constituency	Sitting MP
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Bishnu Pada Ray, BJP
Andhra Pradesh
Araku	Kothapalli Geetha, YSRC
Srikakulam	Rammohan Naidu Kinjarapu, TDP
Vizianagaram	Pusapati Ashok Gajapati Raju, TDP
Visakhapatnam	Kambhampati Hari Babu, BJP
Anakapalli	Muttamsetti Srinivasa Rao, TDP (Now with YSRCP)
Kakinada	Thota Narasimham, TDP
Amalapuram	Pandula Ravindra Babu, TDP (Joined YSRCP in Feb 2019)
Rajahmundry	Murali Mohan, TDP
Narasapuram	Gokaraju Gangaraju, BJP
Eluru	Maganti Venkateswara Rao, TDP
Machilipatnam	Konakalla Narayana Rao, TDP
Vijayawada	Kesineni Srinivas, TDP
Guntur	Jayadev Galla, TDP
Narasaraopet	Rayapati Sambasiva Rao, TDP
Bapatla	Maluadri Sriram, TDP
Ongole	YV Subba Reddy, YSRCP
Nandyal	S P Y Reddy, YSRCP
Kurnool	Butta Renuka, YSRCP
Anantapur	JC Diwakar Reddy, TDP
Hindupur	Kristappa Nimmala, TDP
Kadapa	Avinash Reddy, YSRCP
Nellore	Mekapati Rajamohan Reddy, YSRCP
Tirupati	Varaprasad Rao Velagapalli, YSRCP
Rajampet	PV Midhun Reddy, YSRCP
Chittoor	Naramalli Sivaprasad, TDP
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh West	Kiren Rijiju, BJP
Arunachal Pradesh East	Ninong Ering, Congress
Assam
Tezpur	Ram Prasad Sarmah, BJP
Kaliabor	Gaurav Gogoi, Congress
Jorhat	Kamakhya Prasad Tasa, BJP
Dibrugarh	Rameswar Teli, BJP
Lakhimpur	Pradan Baruah, BJP
Bihar
Aurangabad	Sushil Kumar Singh, BJP
Gaya	Hari Manjhi, BJP
Nawada	Giriraj Singh, BJP
Jamui	Chirag Paswan, LJP
Chhattisgarh
Bastar	Dinesh Kashyap, BJP
Jammu and Kashmir
Baramulla	Muzaffar Hussain Baig, PDP
Jammu	Jugal Kishore, BJP
Lakshadweep
Lakshadweep	Mohammed Faizal PP, NCP
Maharashtra
Wardha	Ramdas Chandrabhanji Tadas, BJP
Ramtek	Krupal Balaji Tumane, Shiv Sena
Nagpur	Nitin Gadkar, BJP
Bhandara-Gondiya	Madhukarrao Yashwantrao Kukde, NCP
Gadchiroli-Chimur	Ashok Nete, BJP
Chandrapur	Ahir Hansraj Gangaram, BJP
Yavatmal-Washim	Gawali Bhavana Pundlikrao, Shiv Sena

Constituency	Sitting MP
Manipur
Outer Manipur	Thangso Baite, Congress
Meghalaya
Shillong	Vincent H Pala, Congress
Tura	Vacant, After Congrad Sangma became chief minister
Mizoram
Mizoram	CL Ruala, Congress
Nagaland
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Odisha
Kalahandi	Arka Keshari Deo, BJD
Nabarangpur	Balabhadra Majhi, BJD
Berhampur	Sidhant Mohapatra, BJP
Koraput	Jhina Hikaka, BJD
Sikkim
Sikkim	Prem Nath Rai, SDF
Telangana
Adilabad	Godam Nagesh, TRS
Peddapalli	Balka Suman, TRS
Karimnagar	Vinod Kumar Boinapally, TRS
Nizamabad	Kalvakuntla Kavitha, TRS
Zahirabad	B.B. Patil, TRS
Medak	Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao, TRS
Malkajgiri	Ch.Malla Reddy, TDP
Secunderabad	Bandaru Dattatreya, BJP
Hyderabad	Asaduddin Owaisi, AIMIM
Chevella	Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, TRS (resigned in 2018)
Mahbubnagar	AP Jithender Reddy, TRS
Nagarkurnool	Yellaiah Nandi, Congress
Nalgonda	Gutha Sukhender Reddy, Congress
Bhongir	Dr. Boora Narsaiah Goud, TRS
Warangal	Kadiyam Srihari, TRS
Mahabubabad	Prof. Azmeera Seetaram Naik, TRS
Khammam	Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy, YSRCP
Tripura
Tripura West	Sankar Prasad Datt, CPI(M)
Uttar Pradesh
Saharanpur	Raghav Lakhanpal, BJP
Kairana	Tabassum Hasan, RLD
Muzaffarnagar	Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, BJP
Bijnor	Kunwar Bharatendra Singh, BJP
Meerut	Rajendra Agrawal, BJP
Baghpat	Satya Pal Singh, BJP
Ghaziabad	VK Singh, BJP
GautamBuddhaNagar	Mahesh Sharma, BJP
Uttarakhand
Tehri Garhwal	Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah, BJP
Garhwal	Maj Gen (Retd) Bhuwan Chandra Khanduri (AVSM), BJP
Almora	Ajay Tamta, BJP
Nainital-Udhamsingh Nagar	Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, BJP
Haridwar	Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, BJP
West Bengal
Cooch Behar	Partha Pratim Ray, Trinamool Congress
Alipurduar	Dasrath Tirkey, Trinamool Congress