A detail analysis of the role that MONEY played in election process

1. Presented by:-
Amit Roy
Manvi Singh

2. Some Proverbs…
 “Silver key opens every door”
 “Money, money, money; brighter than sunshine
and sweeter than honey”
 “Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of
all evil, the sum of blessings”. – (Carl Sandburg).

3. Is money is needed for doing good
or bad in elections?
 Initially the elections were not costly : Rs 10 crore in
the first General Election
 Scenario now has changed : In 1998 - Rs 666 crore, In
1999 – Rs 880 crore and in 2004 1300 crore.
 Expenses limit : The limit for a Lok Sabha candidate is
Rs 25 lakh and Rs 10 lakh for an Assembly candidate.

4. Is money is needed for doing good
or bad in elections?
 Majority of the people are poor or middle class.
 Money has only two uses in Indian elections
 Three-fourths of our parliamentarians are either
associated with crime or suspected of criminal
associations

5. Some Facts… million, you are 75 times
 If you are worth Rs.50
more likely to
win the elections to the Lok Sabha than if you are
worth under
Rs.1 million.
 Twenty – three out of 64 cabinet ministers’ assets
fall in the
Rs.50 million plus category.
 The 543 MPs of the current Lok Sabha are worth
Rs.80 billion.

6. Media, Money And Elections
 The month long general election beginning April 16
will witness an outlay of something like 100 billion
rupees (two billion dollars).
 About 20 billion rupees will be spent by the national
Election Commission and state government on
organizing the actual Polling.
 a matter of serious concern and of far reaching
consequences which has surfaced in this year’s
parliamentary election is “paid news syndrome”.

7. Media, Money And Elections
 CMS estimating that as much as 20 billion
rupees has been for “unofficial” cash
purchases of individual votes on the even of
balloting.
 The blatant misuse of print and electronic
media by political parties and candidates and
also about the media which allowed itself to
be abused by them.

8. Conclusion
 Finally, as a matter of reality in political economic accounting, it should
be said that MONEY has only one role during pre-
election/election/post-election: as a capital investment for politicians
to earn more profits for themselves and for their 'hangers-on'!
MONEY is the BANE of our CULTURE!

9. Referances
 Inaugural address by Hon’ble Justice G.N. Ray at Seminar on ‘Role of
Money Power in Elections” on 8th August, 2009 organised by Kerala
Journalists’ Union, Palakkad, Kerala.
 Report of P. Sainath.
 http://abdullah.instablogs.com/entry/election-expenses-in-india/
 http://news.in.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4568664