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Naidu puts ₹2,000 price on votes, questions post-poll costs
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said each vote is valued at at least ₹2,000 during elections, while the same political system can cost more than ₹2 lakh after polling. M9.news reported…
The Story in Brief
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said each vote is valued at at least ₹2,000 during elections, while the same political system can cost more than ₹2 lakh after polling. M9.news reported his remarks on the role of money in elections and government.
The report said parties spend hundreds of crores during campaigns, much of it on poll management. It agreed that Naidu had addressed a real problem, but argued that ending money-driven elections is difficult because parties feel compelled to spend heavily to compete. It offered no independent figures to verify the sums cited.
The Indian Opinion
The lazy narrative is that a single cash figure explains all election spending. It does not. Naidu’s comparison is a sharp political point, but M9.news provides no evidence for either amount and does not separate voter payments from campaign costs or later public expenditure. The useful test is whether election authorities publish audited, constituency-level spending data and prosecute violations, rather than rely on memorable numbers.
Source: m9.news
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