Keep a close eye on candidates’ expenditure: Expenditure Observer
The Expenditure Observer for Ludhiana West by-election, Mr Indana Ashok Kumar, IRS on Monday directed all flying squads, static surveillance, video surveillance, accounting teams and Assistant Expenditure observers to keep a close eye on the expenditure for election publicity and campaigning to be made by the candidates.
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Jun 2, 2025 02:49
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Ludhiana, June 2, 2025: The Expenditure Observer for Ludhiana West by-election, Mr Indana Ashok Kumar, IRS on Monday directed all flying squads, static surveillance, video surveillance, accounting teams and Assistant Expenditure observers to keep a close eye on the expenditure for election publicity and campaigning to be made by the candidates.
Presiding over a meeting, the Expenditure Observer asked the teams to submit the reports on the expenses incurred by the candidates on a daily basis. He said that to keep a close tab over the expenditure incurred by the parties and candidates, 12 FSTs, One VVT, Eight VSTs, Nine SSTs, one Account teams and AEOs and MCMC were working to keep close tab over poll expenditure. He asked the flying squads, static surveillance teams, and others to discharge their duties responsibly to ensure free and fair elections. He also asked for coordination between the officers and the staff who have been appointed to check the expenses.
Moreover, the shadow registers of the candidates who will be in poll fray, will be compared with the registers maintained by them thrice. During checking, the contesting candidates will bring their expenditure registers and another record like cash book, bank voucher and bank statements and will be matched with the shadow registers.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (RD) Amarjit Bains said that the expenditure limit set by the Election Commission of India for a candidate in upcoming Ludhiana West by-election was Rs 40 lakh. He said that after successful nomination of candidates, any kind of expenditure on electioneering would be booked in the shadow registers of the candidates.
