Aruvikkara profligacy

The Aruvikkara by-election campaign was in fact show of money power. Who spent what is beyond anybody’s  guess. . The expenditure part of the election campaign by various candidates in Aruvikkara crossed all permissible levels stipulated by the Election Commission of India. The campaign was so theatrical presenting that there would be no life for political parties after Aruvikkara poll.The inflow of black money also cannot be ruled out.

There is a provision for expenditure observer in the constituency to monitor the spending by the candidates. But in this particular case it seems that the observer was in deep sleep all the time. The monitoring mechanism in the constituency has miserably failed to check the extravagance of political parties. Invisible expenditure relating channel show etc still remains unaccounted.

The candidates would become morally corrupt too when they submit returns to the Election Commission.

K A Solaman