District Eection Officer and Returning Officer for Tehri lok Sabha seat BVRC Purushottam said that the under Section 77 of representation of the People Act 1951, the ECI’s appointed Observers have decided to review candidates’ election expenditure on April 28 and May 5 at Dehradun Collectorate and May 2 in Tehri Garhwal Collectorate auditorium. In Dehradun, the candidate’s election expenditure will be reviewed between 10 am and 5 pm at Treasury office and in Tehri Garhwal the observers will review such expenditure between 12 am and 5 pm at election office on said date.
The election officer said that the candidates of all the political parties have been directed to submit detailed election expenditure of rallies, pamphlets, banners, advertisements, campaign materials and others before the election expenditure observer on said date.The candidates were advised to submit such election expenditure reports of Purola, Yamnotri, Gangotri, Dhanaulti, Pratapnagar, Ghanshali Vidhan Sabha constituencies a day before the scheduled time to the concerned ARO so that such reports would be reviewed by the observers on said date.
He further said that candidates of political parties and independent candidates should keep record of election expenditure in a separate register and ensure that this is also entered in the shadow register periodically. It would be pertinent to mention here that all the election expenditure of the candidates before their nomination will be included in party’s expenditure account while after nomination, all the expenditure will be included in candidate’s account, he added.