The District Electoral Officer has served notice on four lok Sabha poll candidates for not submitting the expense accounts. Bastar Collector and District Electoral Officer Ankit Anand said that the date for inspection of accounts register of Bastar lok Sabha Constituency-10 has been fixed.
The first inspection was held on March 30 at the District Collectorate. During the inspection, only four of the total eight candidates of the constituency have presented their expenses account register.
He said that that those candidates who have not submitted their accounts register for inspection now could submit it on April 1. Those candidates who have submitted their account register are – Dinesh Kashyap of the BJP, Deepak Karma of the Congress, Arjun Singh Thakur of Ambedkarite Party of India and Vimla Sori of the CPI.
Those who did not present the accounts register are – Soni Sori of AAP, Devchand Dhurv of CPI(Ml) Red Star, Manbodh Baghel of BSP and Shankar Ram Thakur of the SP. The second inspection of the election expenses register would be held on April 4 and the third inspection on April 9, he added.