ELECTION COMMISSION BAR 2171 CANDIDATES
[Disqualification over failure to produce expenditure
details]
The Election Commission has disqualified over
2000 candidates for failing to provide details of
expenditure incurred while contesting parliamentary and assembly polls.
These 2,171 face being barred by the Election
Commission for three years.
The move is part of the EC's measures to bring
in financial transparency and propriety in the conduct of elections.
Maharashtra tops the list with 260 disqualified
candidates followed by Chhattisgarh with 259
candidates.
All these candidates were disqualified under
section 8A read with 11(A)(2) and 1OA of the
Representation of the People Act (1951) for failing to submit
their election expenditure accounts within the stipulated
30-day period from the date of announcement of results.
While most such candidates are non-serious
candidates, some candidates had filed their returns
within the stipulated 30-day period but those were not
found in proper order and thus stood disqualified.
The EC has sent the list of all such barred
candidates to Chief Electoral Officers for forwarding to
the respective Returning Officers. Earlier, it had
disqualified as many as 3,275 contestants in September 2009
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