00:00we have elections happening next month uh and you know the same story i think will pan out this time
00:06also there will be elections there will be voting and then there will be reports of boot capturing
00:11hina let me tell you that boot capturing is a thing of the past now but it happened more so in
00:1680s and 90s but we still see incidents of i know now what you have is a silent boot capture
00:21silent boot capturing you know how it happens bribe money gifts like sadis liquor
00:30and these are things this is silent boot capture now you have the technology you have cctvs you have
00:36election commission officers at all levels now you have the social media you have the print media and
00:42the social media has been the biggest death knell of all boot capture but old habits die hard nobody
00:49can prevent the gifts of sadis suit links liquor and money that also is a way of boot capturing
00:55appealing in the name of caste and communal matters that also is boot capturing but those days
01:03where people would go and 20 people would go to the booth and stamp all the those days are over
01:08so today you see it has been perfected into a very subtle art of managing people and not only i would
01:17say manipulating the mindset and the thinking process through illegitimate gift because under the election
01:23and represent people's act giving of liquor giving of gifts giving of such gifts also is a crime is
01:30an offense and therefore i would appeal to the district officers and the election commission
01:35observers to see to it that the model code of conduct is scrupulously followed no gifts exchange
01:41hands especially liquor etc do not reach the electorate and those who are supposed to vote so during
01:47elections do you think that the illegal smuggling of liquor uh you know increases because we have
01:54these kind of activities taking place you see unfortunately what you say are very prophetic
02:00there has been very large number of recovery of illegitimate liquor along the up-bihar border in
02:06the recent days if you just see the statistics of the last 30 days you see that recovery of illegitimate
02:12liquor contraband liquor on the up-bihar border has gone up manifold you know why only because of the
02:18fact that it is being smuggled into bihar so as to be distributed to the electorate then if we know
02:24that this happens during elections then why is nothing happening in these border of course that
02:30things are that is why these things are being recovered had things not been happening they would
02:34not have been recovered and they would not have been caught but then how are people emboldened to do
02:39this if we have right it makes a lot of money you see even tatas and vidlas and adanis and ambanis
02:45cannot have this level problem they convert 100 rupee note into 2 000 rupees as the smuggling of
02:50illegitimate liquor is spurious liquor is and also transporting liquor from up into a state that is
02:56going into elections that makes means a lot of money first they would try to win over the excise and
03:01the police officials if they're unable to then the police and the excise officers will challenge them
03:06recover them and that is what the exercise of the proactive effort has yielded results and i would
03:12compliment both the up and the bihar police for recovering unprecedented amount of illicit liquor
03:18so is it happening under any sort of joint operation or is it happening with both sides it always happens
03:24individually also but when there's an election there are joint operations joint sharing of intelligence
03:29and joint rates also i don't deny the fact that some of the liquor will not be
03:36taken away by them or misused by the local police officer i also accept the fact but 90 percent of
03:41the liquor will be displayed and declared as a contraband and almost 10 percent but in one or
03:48two cases if this does happen i don't deny the possibility but the police leadership now everything
03:52is done you know what the advantage of having a mobile phone with of course people taking making
03:57videos social medias and some very very adventurous and proactive police officers what they do is to take
04:03journalists also they make videos of the entire raid and the arrest and the recovery there is no escape
04:09from that because everything is uh into the media then immediately in real time
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