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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 9 : Seizures in Karnataka, which goes to polls on Wednesday, mark a significant 4.5 times increase as compared to the Assembly Election in 2018, the Election Commission of India said on Tuesday."Strict vigil, extensive monitoring, coordination with neighbouring states and inter-agency coordination has led to checking flow and distribution of inducements in Karnataka this time," ECI said in a statement."During the visit to Karnataka in the second week of March, the Commission has exhaustively reviewed the preparations which included extensive reviews and preparations of coordinated functioning of enforcement agencies, both Central and State. The Commission also had detailed reviews of district heads and SPs of the above poll-going states. While announcing the schedule for Karnataka Assembly Elections, 2023, Chief Election Commissioner, Rajiv Kumar stressed on increased vigil and zero tolerance on distribution of inducements during the electoral process. He remarked that the Commission has significantly raised the bar for ensuring inducement-free elections and the continuum of stepping up of efforts and increase in seizures witnessed during recently held Assembly Elections in five States, would continue," the statement read."As a drive, the results are encouraging with Karnataka witnessing seizures of Rs. 375.61 crore during enforcement of the Model Code of Conduct period which is nearly 4.5 times the seizures made in Assembly Elections, 2018. Additionally, from the date of the visit of the Commission in the second week of March 2023 till the date of the announcement of elections, seizures of Rs 83.78 crores were also made by various enforcement agencies. Enforcement Directorate has also attached assets amounting to Rs 288 Crores after the imposition of MCC," it added."The extensive monitoring process started months back before the announcement of elections and includes a host of activities like a thorough review of the preparation of different stakeholders including enforcement agencies, DEOs/SPs, the appointment of experienced officers as Expenditure Observers, sensitizing and inter-agency coordination & monitoring and adequate availability of field level teams. 146 Expenditure Observers were deployed and 81 Assembly Constituencies were marked as Expenditure Sensitive Constituencies for the stricter vigil," the letter read."The Commission also reviewed the law and order situation and inter-state vigil through border check posts of poll-going Karnataka and neighbouring states of Maharashtra, Goa, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu on May 1, 2023. The review was attended by Chief Secretaries, DGPs, Excise Commissioners and regional Heads of prominent enforcement agencies of all these bordering States. On the occasion, CEC Shri Rajiv Kumar again stressed proper manning and monitoring of specifically the 185 check posts in border districts," it read further.At the review meeting, EC Anup Chandra Pandey also emphasized the scope of improvement in illicit liquor seizures, action against kingpins, and preventing stockpiling of liquor.EC Shri Arun Goel had however asked the officials to tighten the vigilance without causing inconvenience to the public and ensure a thorough follow-up post-seizure operations. Seizures of cash, liquor, drugs, precious metals and freebies from such border check-posts have subsequently been reported to be more than Rs 70 Crores.The Karnataka assembly will go to polls on Wednesday and the counting of votes will take place on May 13. The majority mark to form the government is 113 seats.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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