It appears to be a season of controversies. After NCP supremo Sharad Pawar asked people to vote twice and MNS chief Raj Thackeray asked people to take money from Congress leaders and not vote for them, it's time for the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) — the students' wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party — to create a scandal of its own.


Money matters: An activist is seen handing out money to the students outside Shivaji Garden, University of Pune

mid-day found out that ABVP activists were handing out money to students residing in the boys' hostel of University of Pune (UoP) to vote for candidates of a particular party.

The incident, caught on camera, shows a group of six activists approaching students gathered at UoP's Shivaji Garden on Wednesday and Thursday. They were carrying voters' lists and called the boys aside, checked their names against the list and then handed them cash, asking them to vote for a particular candidate.


Vote bribe: An activist checks the name of students against the voters' list. The video shows that the students were being asked to vote for a candidate