Every Financial activity of any candidates should be gauged minutely to provide level playing field to all candidates, Punjab Chief Electoral Officer S. Karuna Raju on Saturday instructed officers and representatives of various banks working in Punjab.,
Interacting with bank representatives, the CEO apprised that the Election Commission of India has framed rules to conduct fair, transparent and peaceful elections besides giving all candidates and parties level playing field. "As per the directions of ECI, Several monitoring teams have also been formed to execute such rules in letter and spirit, which were continuously working on assigned tasks", he said.
Raju said the election expenditure limit for the person interested to contest the elections has been fixed Rs.70 lac by the Election Commission of India and the candidate has to spend all this expenditure through the account to opened according the directives of the Election Commission of India.
The Punjab CEO said Banks should ensure that there is no difficulty in opening an account as per Election Commission instructions and every financial activities of already existed bank accounts of the family members of candidate is being closely monitored.
He said that there is a large proportion of buyers, who purchases goods through e-commerce companies. If a candidate or concerned person purchases large number of goods through online payment, he / she should also be supervised as these goods goods could be used to allure voters.