Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan defended his party leader Madhusudan Gupta, who was arrested for damaging a voting machine in Gutti in Guntakal Assembly constituency. "How do we know who broke the machine?" he said, even though there's a video of Gupta throwing an EVM on the floor at the polling booth.

also read: Pak carried out Pulwama terror attack to benefit PM Modi: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

The accused is a member of Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena Party. The alleged incident took place as the first phase of voting for the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections begun in Andhra Pradesh.   The incident took place in Gooty, Anantapur district. The accused was escorted out of the booth immediately after the incident.

Madhusudan Gupta threw the EVM on the floor at a polling station in the Guntakal Assembly constituency of Anantapur district. Jana Sena leader Madhusudan Gupta was reportedly angry with the polling staff in Gooty. He claimed that the names of the Assembly and Parliament constituencies were not being displayed properly.

The first phase of voting has begun in Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Odisha, Sikkim, Tripura, Nagaland, Maharashtra, Telangana, West Bengal, Andaman, and the Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep. The campaigning for this phase will end on Monday. 

also read: PDP had no option to drink a cup of poison by joining hands with BJP: Mehbooba Mufti