The Election Commission has initiated an investigation against Sobha Surendran, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Kerala’s Palakkad, for allegedly distributing money to voters ahead of the Assembly elections, The Indian Express reported.
Surendran rejected the claims and described them as a “conspiracy”.
Kerala Chief Electoral Officer Rathan U Kelkar said that the alleged incident was reported on Wednesday.
Assembly elections in the state are being held in a single phase on Thursday. Votes will be counted on May 4.
Videos circulating on social media and on television channels showed a person offering something to an elderly woman, PTI reported. Subsequently, another group went to her, asked her to open her fist and showed that she had a roll of Rs 500 notes.
It was alleged that the woman was given money by a person in Surendran’s campaign team, the news agency reported. The woman denied having received any money but admitted that she had asked for Rs 5,000 to buy medicines.
The alleged incident took place in Theruvakkurishi under the Kannadi panchayat in Palakkad.
The BJP candidate in Palakkad is caught red-handed distributing cash on the eve of elections! All this, while the Election Commission is asleep and blissfully unaware of the electoral malpractice. It is in BJP’s DNA to manipulate elections, no matter what, no matter where.
— K C Venugopal (@kcvenugopalmp) April 8,...Read more
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