Pay Apps come handy to candidates in distributing money to voters

How to distribute money to the voters without being detected by the police or the polling authorities? This is the biggest challenge for the politicians contesting elections this time. Usually, the distribution of allurements to entice the voters happens on the last date and the leaders of rival parties spy on one another to thwart respective money distribution plans.

However, this time around, the politicians are using social media cash payment apps to great effect. The parties are transferring the amounts through payment apps. This is ensuring cashless transfers directly to the voters and is also preventing pilferage by grassroots level workers. The parties have come to depend on these apps in a big way.

According to sources, the party functionaries have opened hundreds of accounts and money has already been deposited in to these accounts by the candidates. These functionaries are transferring the amounts to the voters in a cashless manner. Also, every care is being taken to ensure that no payment is more than Rs 50000. If it is more than 50000, it could attract the attention of the investigating authorities.

Unlike earlier, where each party spies on the other, this time, the money directly reaches the voter through online pay apps. Thus, detection by the police becomes impossible. Also establishing the source of the money to the candidate contesting the elections also become very difficult. This makes it easy for them to escape the police dragnet.