A Vote costs only Rs 1000: MLA

Update: 2013-09-20 12:57 GMT
BJP MLA Pankaja Munde (BJP senior leader Gopinath Munde's daughter) controversial remarks on the electoral system has garnered the nation's attention. She asserted Vote can be bought for Rs 1000 these days and it's value isn't even a rupee for a day for the government.

Few months ago, Gopinath Munde too made similar comments on the present system. He compared his first election in which he spent Rs 29,000 to his last election in which he poured Rs 8 crore to say how costly the politics have become Today.

Two leaders belong to a same family making such controversial comments is very rare. Hence, Gopinath and Pankaja made the headlines nation wide.
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