The observers should keep a strict vigil on the movement of liquor and cash in their respective areas and the contestants should make all their payments by cheque or demand drafts.
The Expenditure Observer of the Election Commission of India Tarun Kant Ojha said this while presiding over a meeting of Assistant Expenditure Observers and teams of audit and accounts of all the 14 Assembly segments of Tehri lok Sabha constituency at Collectorate here on Monday.
Elaborating on the process of maintaining the expenditure register of the candidates Ojha said that audit account teams should make entries in the register on the basis of the ground information they receive. He said that the observers should do the videography of the cash and liquor seizures in their areas and keep vigil on suspicious withdrawals above 10 lakhs from the banks.
Ojha said that since the Tehri lok Sabha seat covers three districts so the MCMC teams of these three districts can give approvals of printing and publishing of advertisements to the candidates. Explaining about the paid news in the newspapers the expenditure observer said that any news which is praising any specific candidate and such news is regularly appearing in the newspaper than it should be classified as paid news. He asked the media certification committees of the all the districts to do micro level monitoring of the paid news and bring the issue to the notice of returning officer immediately. Ojha expressed satisfaction over the functioning of MCMC cell of Dehradun.
The Chief Development Officer (CDO) AK Padey, Additional District Magistrate Pratap Shah, Chief Treasury Officer J S Chauhan and Deputy Collector lN Mishra were also present in the meeting.