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| Massive use of dirty money in elections has killed soul of democracy: Harsh | | | 
Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 30: 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, 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. |
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