Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, August 26 -
Candidates contesting the Assembly elections in Haryana will have to submit the details of their election expenditure to the office of the District Election Officer within one month after the election results are declared. According to the Election Commission of India, candidates who do not give the details of election expenditure within the stipulated time period may be disqualified from contesting elections in future.
Giving information, CEO Pankaj Agarwal said this time, the maximum limit of expenditure per candidate for the Assembly elections is Rs 40 lakh. He said as per the rules, the calculation of election expenditure starts as soon as the candidate fills the nomination form. For this, the candidate has to keep a separate diary of his daily election expenditure and also has to open a separate bank account. The calculation of expenditure continues till the completion of the election process.
He said as per the instructions of the ECI, election expenditure of more than Rs 10,000 by the candidate or political parties will be made by cheque or draft or RTGS/NEFT or any other electronic mode from the bank account of the candidate opened for the purpose of election in all situations.