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Election over, time for feast
Telegraph India | Jan 29, 2012 at 11:32pm :
Polling over, it is time here for revelry and feasts funded by money distributed by candidates yesterday in exchange for votes.
Though campaigning had been low key owing to the curbs on expenditure enforced by the Election Commission, Heikrujam Charubala Devi, a teacher, said, "Below the surface, the candidates let the Father of the Nation (currency notes with Mahatma Gandhi's picture) campaign for them."
Manipur went to the polls yesterday to elect 60 MLAs to the state Assembly.
"The prices of local fish have gone up by Rs 15 to Rs 70 per kg today. There is also a shortage of supply. This is because of the huge demand today based on the money the voters got from candidates yesterday," S. Sofia (not her real name), a fish vendor in the all- woman market here told The Telegraph. She said suppliers had increased prices in view of the huge demand.
"Altogether 12,000kg of fish landed here from outside the state today. But this stock will not last till dusk. I am finding it difficult to meet the demand. This will continue till the results are out. I have an order of 200kg tomorrow and I do not have the stock," he said.
There were, however, candidates who did not distribute money during the election to avoid attracting the attention of election observers. "My candidate, however, promised his supporters that he would entertain those who voted for him after the election," an active worker of a Congress candidate said.
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