Cash For Votes

RK Nagar bypoll: Rigged, unfair and foul for sure, but what's next?

Thirumangalam, in an ironic defiance of its pleasant sounding name, turned out to be most inauspicious for Tamil Nadu’s already fouled poll politics. The by-election, buy-election rather, held there in January 2009 under the auspices, not of EC, but Alagiri, sparked a decisive plunge to the depths in voter bribery.

In a first, EC cancels polls for two TN Assembly seats citing 'unconducive environment'

The Election Commission on Saturday decided to rescind the notification and conduct polls afresh "in due course of time" to two Tamil Nadu Assembly seats following evidence of use of money to influence voters.

Vote 'auction' in Tamil Nadu as parties lure voters with premium price tags

Parties in Tamil Nadu have been dangling cash at voters for far too long to stop doing it in a hurry.

LPG cash subsidy: How oil cos will pay for UPA re-election

The PMO is planning to pay the LPG cash subsidy for only one cylinder upfront: this means the oil companies will bear a part of the UPA's re-election costs

Madhya Pradesh: Case against BJP candidate for giving cash to voters

A senior police officer in Ujjain said that the case was registered against Yadav on Monday following a complaint by Congress MP Premchand Guddu.

Cash-for-votes case: Court permits further probe

A court hearing the 2008 case on the alleged bribing of MPs by the UPA government to survive a confidence vote in parliament on Monday allowed a plea by an accused seeking further investigations into the money trail.

Cash-for-votes : Five Jharkhand MLAs to be questioned

Five Jharkhand MLAs would face questions of the Vigilance Bureau in connection with their alleged involvement in the 2010 cash-for-vote footage shown on a news channel, a senior police official said on Tuesday.

Cash-for-vote scam: Court reserves order on plea against Amar

A Delhi court today reserved for December 12 its order on a plea for lodging a case against Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh for his alleged role in kidnapping of a witness in 2008 cash-for-vote case.

Cash-for-votes: Sudheendra Kulkarni and four others granted bail

The Delhi High court today granted bail to five accused in the 2002-cash-for-votes scam including Sudheendra Kulkarni

Very happy Amar Singh got bail: Digvijaya Singh

The Delhi High Court granted bail to Amar Singh in the 2008 cash-for-vote case but restrained him from leaving the country without its permission.