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Getting an assurance from contestants in exchange for votes

By Our Staff Reporter

PONDICHERRY, APRIL 29. Normally candidates contesting elections will give assurances while seeking voters' support. But in Pondicherry an organisation, the Pondicherry Panchayat Movement, has come out with a novel system of imposing conditions on the contestants before assuring support to them. The Movement`s support in the May 10 Lok Sabha poll will be for that candidate who accepts the conditions it imposes.

The president, V. A. Vasudeva Raju, and general secretary, F. Joseph Victor Raj, said in a release yesterday, that the movement's executive committee decided that its members and also those attached to self-help groups and non-governmental organisations under its purview would cast their vote only to that candidate who gives an undertaking when elected he or she would persuade the Union Home Ministry to notify civic polls here.

The municipal poll due since 1974 should be held in the first or second week of August this year so that elected members could function from Independence Day.

Mr. Vasudeva Raju said the candidate requiring its support should send a written undertaking in this connection. Another condition is that the guarantee letter should be submitted to the president of the movement on or before May 3.

If candidates are sponsored by political parties, they should also (along with the contestant's acceptance) give an undertaking, the release said.

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