Post date: Mar 22, 2012 8:49:58 AM
It has become an accepted truth all over the nation that during elections candidates spend hell a lot of money to distribute to poor voters in the form of money, liquor and kind, just to ensure victory.
No election is assumed to be immune to this syndrome right from General Elections to Panchayat Elections. But for the first time in the history, YSR Congress Party has made an attempt to make everyone know the fact.
An analyst said, “YS Jagan has been dead against in distributing liquor to poor to win votes. He didn’t even encourage his candidate or made an attempt to do that despite the opponents were into that in the fresh by poll at Kovur constituency."
On the other hand there was heavy pressure on YS Jagan to spend money on votes as the opponents were throwing away Rs 500 to Rs 1000 per vote along with making the voters promise on Bible and Bhagawadgeetha stating that they won’t vote for any other candidate betraying the first payers.
But still YS Jagan has shown his recalcitrance stating, “This is going to be a true evidence of credibility we have among voters. I’m dead against to distribution of money at this juncture. I don’t mind even we lose. But let us check ourselves. If we too distribute money like others and win, we will not be in a position to prove whether we won due to faith or shelling money. So just keep away from such activities”.
Finally the result was declared today and YSR Congress candidate Prasanna Kumar Reddy has won.
“It is an open secret that the Congress spent the most to woo voters, followed by TD. Mr Prasanna Kumar Reddy, the YSR Congress candidate, spent not even a fifth of that,” a senior minister who campaigned in Kovur said.
Interestingly, no opponent opened their mouths against YSR Congress. A huge sum of money was seized in Kovur that belonged to Congress and TDP. Surprisingly, even yellow media didn’t dare to pass the buck towards YS Jagan and write allegations for knowing the ultimate truth.
On a whole YSR Congress started a new trend of showing the power without any anti democratic means.