The BJP has sought to offer a clarification for the mysterious black box that was allegedly part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter cavalcade in north Karnataka’s Chitradurga on 12 April, with the party’s district president KS Naveen telling Deccan Herald that the box was “part of the SPG unit and contained a teleprompter and other equipment to deck up the dais for PM’s speech”.

Slamming the Congress, which had written to the Election Commission demanding a probe into the incident, KS Naveen, president of BJP’s Chitradurga unit, said their allegations did not even warrant a “casual look”.