The candidates who have not submitted their panchayat election expenditure related details within given period of time, have been asked to do so within 20 days.
Acting on the direction from the state election commission on the matter, the district election office, Bageshwar, has asked the candidates who have not yet submitted poll expenditure details involving the recently concluded three tier panchayat elections to submit the same to the office of the district panchayat office within 20 days.
According to the state election commission, the candidates were supposed to submit their election expenditure details within 30 days since the panchayat election results were announced.“But only a handful of candidates have cared to follow the direction,” said BS Manral, District Election Officer (DEO), Bageshwar.