Chennai,, 22/4: With only one day to go for voting in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal phase 1 assembly elections, the Election Commission of India on Wednesday said that it had seized cash, liquor, drugs and other freebies worth Rs 1,000 crore in the two states since the election Seizure Management System (ESMS) was activated on February 26.
The EC said it deployed over 5,011 (2,728 in West Bengal and 2,283 in Tamil Nadu) Flying Squad Teams (FSTs) to ensure strict compliance of Model Code of Conduct and that the complaints are attended to within 100 minutes.
