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All India Congress Committee (AICC) wide caput K.C. Venugopal and Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sunny Joseph connected Wednesday (April 8, 2026) demanded the Election Commission of India (EC) to instrumentality strict enactment regarding allegations of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers handing implicit wealth to voters successful the beingness of its Palakkad campaigner Sobha Surendran, conscionable a time earlier the Kerala Assembly polls connected Thursday (April 9, 2026). A video of the incident, showing alleged BJP workers slipping a wad of currency notes successful the hands of a elder national astatine Kannadi successful Palakkad, had gone viral earlier successful the day. Ms. Surendran was aboriginal seen arguing with those who were filming the video.
“Giving wealth to power voters is simply a precise superior usurpation of predetermination rules. What is the Election Commission doing contempt the BJP openly distributing wealth successful Palakkad? The BJP’s wealth travel tin beryllium seen each implicit Kerala. The enactment is utilized to giving wealth to power elections. This inclination has travel to my attraction successful Alappuzha arsenic well. This is happening regularly successful what are called the BJP’s ‘A-class’ constituencies,” said Mr. Venugopal.
