Karnataka election date: Cong's Srivatsa faces probe, BJP's Malviya doesn't

The Election Commission announced a single-phase election for the 224-member Karnataka Assembly on May 12; the counting of votes will take place on May 15

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 set up a committee to probe the leak. However, Congress spokesperson Randeep Randeep Singh Surjewala claimed that the Election Commission had excluded BJP leader Amit Shah's name from the probe list.

In a tweeted, Surjewala said, "Yesterday, Union Minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi went to EC with BJP IT head’s explanation. Surprising that EC exonerates