BJP's Hyderabad candidate Madhavi Latha asked female voters to lift burqas to identify them at a polling station. A video showed her cross-checking voters' ID cards. After leaders like TMC's Saket Gokhale criticised her, she said, "As per law...candidate has right to check ID cards without facemasks...I'm not a man. I'm a woman and...[I requested them to show their faces]."