hyderabad the forum for good governance on thursday filed a complaint with the election commission of india asking it to probe largescale irregularities in the recently held munugode byelections fgg alleged that 627 crore were spent in the november 3 bypoll assuming 75 voters were paid money at the rate of 9000 per vote the amount comes to 152 crore alleged fgg secretary m padmanabha reddy liquor consumed would be worth 300 crore expenditure on 50 rallies at the rate of 25 crore per rally or a meeting would be 125 crore he said the government introduced several new schemes and took up pending works in munugodeduring rallies and meetings political parties mobilised people by paying 300 per day plus biryani and liquor all put together an expenditure of 500 per person in rallies and meetings thousands took part apart from it castewise meetings were held providing food and drinks fgg saidreddy alleged that political parties in the fray began purchasing sarpanchs and other functionaries before the election notification there was a price tag for shifting of loyalties he said they submitted a representation to the chief electoral officer but no action was taken in the past one month parties corrupted people of munugode to the maximum extent he saidthere is enough evidence to show how people demanded money and the political parties had obliged in some villages people were sitting on road with placards stating that no money no vote up to 2pm on election day ultimately when their demand for money was met polling started at 3pm and went on till 11pm in some villages people resorted to dharnas claiming that people in adjoining villages got 5000 per vote he claimed