Hyderabad: Mild tension prevailed at Jangammet when BJP leader Shehzadi Begum, who had contested in the previous Assembly elections, came to a polling station and checked the voter slips.

Local AIMIM leaders protested her move as she was neither a local voter nor an agent of the candidate.

An altercation ensued between the BJP leader and AIMIM workers following which police rushed to the spot and asked her to leave.

Reinforcements were rushed to the area as there is a tough contest in the Jangammet division.

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