Ulhasnagar: A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Ulhasnagar has offered a bait of Rs 11,000 to booth workers, to ensure his opponent secures zero votes. A video of the offer made by Jamnu Puraswani, BJP group leader in the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation, has gone viral.
A rally was held in Kalyan for the Maha Yuti candidate Shrikant Shinde. Addressing the rally, Puraswani told the booth workers to ensure every vote went to Shinde and leaders of booths where the opponent would get zero votes would receive Rs 11,000 each. Further, workers of such booths would be felicitated by ministers Eknath Shinde and Ravindra Chavan.
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After this video surfaced, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders approached the chief election officer and lodged a complaint against Puraswani, since the candidate, Babaji Balaram Patil of the Maha Gathbandhan, is from their party. The NCP has alleged this is a complete violation of the model code of conduct and action should be taken against Puraswani.
Prior to this, a BJP leader had asked party workers to get votes of the dead in Hisar.
In another incident, a BJP leader from Fatehpura, Ramesh Katara, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had installed CCTV cameras in the polling booths and every voter was being tracked, he had claimed. The NCP leaders have said, the very fact that the ruling party must resort to such lowdown tactics shows their desperation.
