ThiruvananThapuram: India Election Commission (ECI) has prepared and shared a list of 88 candidates disqualified in contested countries in the selection of Lok Sabha and the election of the state legislature, because their election expenditure was not submitted to the Commission.
This includes 26 candidates who opposed the selection of Sabha and 62 in assembly elections.
Almost all candidates disqualified are independent candidates who have been contested as namesake, most of them submitted by rival parties as tactics to reduce sound from their rivals.
While some of them named ‘unsuccessful’, some have succeeded in contributing to rival missions.
This list includes Rahul Gandhi to, whose mission does not require any explanation, Muhammed Muhsin Paloli (which is contested as a namesake of Muhammed Muhsin, MLA currently from Pattambi), Sambath Anilkumar (placed in Attingal against Sampath of CPM), Sabarinath (continued against KS Congress Candidate KS Sabarinathan) Etc.
The list of qualified candidates has been sent to all the officials who returned and the assistant returned officer for their reference, in case the candidates in the list re-submitted their nomination for the contest in the next election.
They have all been banned from fighting for three years, in some cases prohibits which includes the next general election scheduled for May 2024 too.
According to Section 77 representation of the laws of people, 1951, each candidate must maintain a separate and correct account of all expenses in connection with the selection between the date of the General Election Declaration and the results date.
According to the law, each candidate contest within 30 days must submit an account of its election fee, which must be a copy of the correct account, stored by it.
According to 10a of the law of Rp 1951, if the election commission is satisfied that someone has failed to submit an accounts for electoral fees, he can declare a candidate to be disqualified for three years from the date.
After the selection process is complete, candidates are given 30 days to give their expenses before the district collector.
On the 31st day after the election, they should provide their election fees before the expenditure monitoring committee, which will then calculate the cost equipped with a candidate with a list of shadow expenses managed by the expenditure monitoring committee.
If the cost does not show any anomaly, the report is submitted to the CEO, along with shared support by district collectors and expenditure observers designated by ECI, which is then sent to the commission.