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Karnataka Assembly polls on May 12, Election Commission fumes over 'leak'

BJP social media chief Amit Malviya tweeted the poll date before the EC announcement

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Archis Mohan New Delhi
The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday announced the poll dates for the Karnataka Assembly elections, which sparked a war of words between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) when their respective social media cells tweeted the poll dates before the EC announcement. The EC has set up a committee to probe the leak.
 
BJP social media chief Amit Malviya tweeted the poll date before the EC announcement. The BJP later told the EC that Malviya’s tweet was based on a media report and a Karnataka Congress office-bearer had also tweeted the dates.
 
Interestingly, Malviya and the

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