As Delhi prepares to vote on Saturday, political parties are making elaborate arrangements to manage the landmark election. While the Aam Aadmi Party claims to have deployed spy cameras to catch any attempt to bribe voters, the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) is drawing up an extensive booth management plan.
Accusing the BJP of “buying votes”, the AAP said that it handed over around 6,000 spy cameras to its volunteers to record any attempt to distribute cash and liquor to lure voters. “We have information that BJP is distributing money, liquor and non-vegetarian food to the public and they are also seizing voter identity cards of poor,” AAP leader Ashutosh said.
Terming it as an attempt to curb the practise of liquor and money distribution during elections, an AAP volunteer said, “the technology used this time allows the transfer of video recordings and visuals immediately from the spy cams to centralised war rooms set up by the party.”
The BJP on the other hand, is leaving nothing to chance. In an elaborate booth management plan, the party is fielding one worker per 50 voters. With a strong cadre network and support of its affiliate outfits, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 120 party MPs, several union ministers including Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu, Sushma Swaraj, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Uma Bharti along with many state leaders and chief ministers has campaigned for the BJP in the polls.
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