Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has taken serious exception to the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) ‘inaction’ in the matter of pension disbursement and direct bank transfer of Rs 10,000 to women or other payments in Bihar.

“This is a kind of ‘vote chori’ and was one of the deciding factors in the outcome of the assembly polls there,” he remarked.

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Speaking to the media at the Congress’s state headquarters here on Friday, Gehlot, a senior AICC observer for the Bihar polls, said, “At this juncture, I can only say that the disbursement of money played a vital role in the poll outcome. The release of Rs 10,000 to women, as well as pension and other grants, continued even a day before polling, and the ECI turned a blind eye to it.”

“It was the sheer use of mon

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