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| Massive use of dirty money in elections has killed soul of democracy: Harsh | | |
Majalta,April 30: Mr. Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and former Minister today said that democracy seemed to have lost its meaning and relevance in the country due to massive use ill gotten wealth and black money by Politicians in the ongoing Parliamentary elections in the country. With several crores being incurred on individual elections especially by the big parties by hiring aircrafts, choppers, chartered planes, engaging film stars and actors for campaigns, purchasing TV channels and media for party publicity and using money power to bribe and influence the voters had reduced democracy to a farce. He said unprecedented use of money power in the said elections had killed the soul of democracy. He said that the slogans of ‘level playing field’ and of curbing the use of money power in elections had proved mere hyperboles and used as window dressing for the gullible. He was addressing public meetings in Nakki and Bharnara villages of Tehsil Majalta today.
Terming the brazen display of money power in current elections as antithesis to free and fair elections, Mr. Harsh Dev Singh said that fast changing political narrative in the country had rendered democracy redundant. He said that most alarming aspect of such money politics was its brazen disregard by authorities concerned and ECI. He regretted non initiation of any action against anyone despite huge currency notes having been recovered in a truck during Anantnag elections last week. He further deplored open transpiration of currency notes in vehicles in Banaras last week as disclosed in social medias with none made answerable or accountable. Likewise no notice was taken of thousands of busses used to ferry people to make the Varanasi rally of PM Modi successful wherein millions were expended. He said that despite regular reports of black money being transported during elections by politicians including huge bundles of cash noticed in the cavalcades of Ministers and Chief Ministers, the concerned authorities seemed to have shut their eyes.
Mr. Harsh Dev further expressed dismay over the open defiance of expenditure norms of ECI by BJP, Congress and DSS in Udhampur Parliamentary constituency as well with none to take cognizance despite complaints. He said that that thousands of buses and matadors were used to ferry passengers to Kathua on April 14th to attend the BJP election rally addressed by Narendra Modi and party candidate Jitendra Singh in which several crores were spent on transport, ‘podiums’, ‘pandals’, chartered planes besides banners, hoardings and other publicity materials and campaigns. Likewise, in the BJP rally addressed by its party chief Amit Shah in Udhampur to canvass for the same candidate, thousands of vehicles had been hired without any accounting having been given for that, said Mr. Singh. Similarly, campaign through helicopters was carried out in all assembly segments by BJP and Congress in which millions and crores were spent without any accountability whatsoever. He divulged that even the DSS candidate from Udhampur spent several crores on his campaign without revealing the sources and without accounting for the same in the Expenditure registers. With democratic rights of the poor opponents having been guillotined by use of illegitimate money, Mr. Singh said that PM Modi’s slogan of ushering clean politics had proved to be yet another “Chunavi Jumla”. “It is irony that huge black money was being used in the country unabashedly with no one to save the fast collapsing democracy”, lamented Harsh. |
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