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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Rs 27 crore cash seized during assembly polls in Delhi -Pradeep Thakur

Rs 27 crore cash seized during assembly polls in Delhi -Pradeep Thakur

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published Published on Dec 30, 2013   modified Modified on Dec 30, 2013
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spent Rs 18 crore in Delhi polls and bagged 28 seats. What could have been the expenditure of other political parties is still in the realm of speculation as none has declared their expenses yet. The flying squads of Election Commission and Income Tax had seized Rs 27 crore of unaccounted cash during Delhi polls from political workers, who mainly belonged to BJP and Congress.

The seized amount was enough to fund more than 166 candidates in Delhi, if EC's expenditure cap of Rs 16 lakh per candidate was implemented in letter and spirit. This was even more than enough for both the BJP and the AAP to fund all their candidates. Together, the two parties have won 60 of the 70 assembly seats.

In the past three years, over Rs 200 crore has been seized from poll-bound states - the largest seizures were made from Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi.

Tamil Nadu, which went to polls in 2011, topped the list with total seizure of around Rs 37 crore, followed by UP (Rs 36 crore) and Andhra Pradesh (Rs 31 crore). In UP and AP, elections were held last year. Besides Delhi, Rs 17 crore was seized from Karnataka this year.

Sources in the EC and I-T said the cash seizure was on the lower side in the recent assembly elections as the flying squads could not seize cash carried by businessmen even when they had credible information that they were meant to be distributed for electioneering.

More than Rs 58 crore of unaccounted cash was seized from political activists in the five states - Delhi, MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Mizoram - that went to polls recently. Party workers who were apprehended with cash failed to explain the source of money.

"We have seized large sums from businessmen across these states, but due to a guideline from the Supreme Court we had to handover these cases to the Income Tax for further investigation," said a senior official associated with poll expenditure monitoring.

Rajasthan, where Rs 13 crore was seized during elections, ranked second after Delhi in terms of highest cash seized. Chhattisgarh was third (Rs 10 crore) and then Madhya Pradesh (Rs 8.68 crore). In Mizoram, Rs 18 lakh was intercepted and seized from political workers.

The security was tightened at airports just before the notification of polls with the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security issuing fresh guidelines to even put VIPs and their baggage through mandatory security checks as applicable to common man to screen for huge cash movements during elections.


The Times of India, 30 December, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/assembly-elections-2013/delhi-assembly-elections/Rs-27-crore-cash-seized-during-assembly-polls-in-Delhi/articleshow/28117935.c


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