EC seeks 5-year ban on candidates charge sheeted for bribing voters

Election Commission has reportedly decided to write to the law ministry to ensure that candidates are disqualified for up to five years if found guilty of bribing voters. Earlier, the commission had indefinitely put off the R.K. Nagar Assembly by-poll after it found that money power was used to influence voters. The poll panel had asked the government to give it power under the election law to countermand an election where money power was used.

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