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Ultimately this is a well oiled machinery which has functioned all along but now the Modi government has asked the Election commission to formulate a law for political parties to be accountable to the freebies they promise before the election, we have to see how far this works

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Fair point. It would be interesting to see how rigorously a law like that is crafted and implemented. It seems to me that we have had examples like the Loka Ayuktha in the past, only to be rendered toothless by the same government that ostensibly instituted it in the first place.

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