A new dimension to buying votes

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A group of candidates of a political party is said to be offering money in secret to people who make ‘a religious vow’ to vote for them.

Candidates generously distribute 500 and 1,000-rupee currency notes among these vow-takers in the hope that they will not go back on the pledge made tying it to their religious faith, they say.

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A new dimension to buying votes

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