In
a shocking revelation by the Election
Commissioner (EC) SY Quraishi, members
of a political party bribed Army officers
to rig the LS polls that were conducted
last month.
The incident came to light in the
state of Punjab where a commanding
officer ordered his soldiers to vote
for a particular party. The EC did
not let out the name of the party.
This was mentioned at the House of
Commons in London, where the EC gave
a presentation on the world’s
largest democratic exercise.
Quraishi said, “We realised
that the commanding officers of these
forces were being approached by a
political party and they were being
bribed. And these soldiers had been
told to just say ‘yes sir’.”
It is a rule in the Army to say ‘yes
sir’ to their higher officers
and one cannot expect anything else
other than obeying the commands of
their senior officers.
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