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Sex kickbacks for Neta chamchas
Updated On: 12 October, 2009 06:58 AM IST | | Ketan Ranga and Sanjeev Devasia
Candidates organise sexual favours for political workers during campaign trail
Candidates organise sexual favours for political workers during campaign trail
As much as the voter, every candidate standing for any election knows, his fate can be decided by the political worker.
A neta can have anywhere between 20 and 500 chamchas working for him and it's their involvement during the campaign trail that decides the leader's success.
For a month now, these political workers have been swamped by sexual favours.
Sources say, during every election, and this one is no different, political workers are given incentives to keep them happy by servicing them with prostitutes.
These political workers hold the key to a candidate's success during the campaign trail, which begins approximately a month before poll day.
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Said Tejaswi Sevekari, who runs Saheli HIV AIDS Karyakarta Sangha, an NGO for sex workers, "A month before the elections, the demand for sex workers is huge.
A representative of the political workers scouts the red light areas and books women at least a month before the polls."
Rendezvous fixed
Sources added that the rendezvous is generally fixed at resorts, bungalows and farmhouses in the outskirts of Pune and that Mumbai is generally not part of the scheme of things.
The women normally spend two days with the client and they normally attend in groups of at least six, if not more.
In Pune, most of the sex workers are sourced from the Budhwar Peth area, which has at least 5,000 sex workers.
"Around 1,000 sex workers have been booked by political parties," said a source.
Sevekari added that the sex workers are also paid huge tips. "Only after they return, are we told that they were servicing political parties.
All their expenses travel to the resort, and all incidentals are taken care of," added Sevekari.
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