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EC asks finance ministry to check money power in RS polls

In an unprecedented move, Chief Election Commissioner M S Gill has asked the Union finance ministry to take effective steps for curbing the reported money power to influence Rajya Sabha elections from Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and some other states.

Dr gill told reporters in New Delhi today that he was much concerned over reports on the use of money power in the Rajya Sabha elections. He contacted the Union finance ministry and told it that it had much more power to curb money power by its departments of expenditure and income-tax. Their officials should be deployed for this purpose. There was positive response from the ministry. The commission, on its Own, was trying its best to ensure free and fair polling for the Rajya Sabha elections. The chief electoral officers of the concerned states had been appointed special observers, and they had also been instructed to maintain secrecy of the ballots, he said.

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