When I told Suchetaji about the offer, her reaction was of frank puzzlement: "Why should voters be paid to come and vote for me?" She asked me to refuse the offer. More important, she said the Congress worker who had suggested the garnering of these finances should not be kept on her team. She then told him to assign me to another polling booth so that I would not be subjected to any pressure and harassment for having refused the offer of financial support. What a far cry from the currency-filled suitcases which seem to govern our democracy.