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20.11 Accounts shall be submitted by candidate / Election Agent for inspection
thrice at least during election process - RO shall prepare a schedule of
inspection for the candidate and advance intimation to be given.
20.12 Designated officers appointed by DEO and their locations should be made
known to candidates.
20.13 Any person is entitle to inspect such account and to obtain attested copies
20.14 All expenses (except on visit of "leader" covered under Exp. 2 of Sec. 77)
incurred by the candidate, political party(ies), association/ bodies/
individuals/ supporters shall be included.
20.15 Proportionate expenditure between candidates where expenses incurred in a
public meeting by political party/star campaigners (except travel expenses)
such as expenses of constructions of rostrums/barricades, advertisements
etc.,.
20.16 Where the expenditure is incurred by the party for the benefit of a given group
of candidates, the expenditure is to be apportioned equally among the
candidates.
20.17 Expenditure on general party propaganda seeking support for the party and its
candidate in general, but without any reference to any particular candidate or
any particular class/group of candidates, shall be treated as expenditure of
the party on general party propaganda - Not to be accounted for by the
candidates.
20.18 Travel expenses on party leaders, other than those who are covered under
section 77(1) Exp. 1, cl. (a), should be accounted for - Travel expenses of party
leaders who's names not communicated to ECI and CEO within 7 days from
the notification of election or who's names not included in the list of party
leaders as per section 77(1) Exp. 2, shall also be accounted for.
20.19 A person who is not a member of the party cannot be nominated as "leader" of
the party for the purposes of Sec. 77(1).
20.20 The permits for vehicles to be used by star campaigners (leaders) shall be
issued centrally by CEO - Permits will be in different color and in the name of
person.
20.21 If the vehicle of leader is also occupied by any other person then 50%
expenditure shall be booked in the expenditure of candidate.
20.22 A candidate who has been declared as "leader" for the purpose of Sec. 77(1)
cannot be considered to be a "leader" in his own constituency - In his own