Final Cover Election Expenditure - Election Commission of India

(a)(b)If the Commission deems fit, it may accept the account submitted by the candidate asbeing within time and in the manner required by the Act and the Rules.If the Commission considers that a candidate has failed to submit his account withintime or in the manner required by the Act and the Rules, the Commission shall issue anotice to the candidate to show cause as to why he should not be disqualified u/s 10 Aof the R.P.Act, 1951.15.2. The notice shall be served on the candidate by the DEO, and the evidence of having servedthe notice shall be forwarded by the DEO to the Commission. The Commission afterconsidering the reply, if any, received from the candidate will pass appropriate orders.16. Role of Political Parties:16.1. The National and State level political parties should send the list of their Star Campaignersto CEO and ECI within 7 days of notification of election.16.2. The political parties are required to file the statement of their election expenses with the ECIwithin 75 days of Assembly election or 90 days of elections to Lok Sabha. The statement ofelection expense should include all lump sum amounts given to the individual candidates,the expense on travel of Star Campaigners and other party functionaries, details of expenseson banners, posters, dais, cutouts arches and hoardings, advertisement in Press andElectronic media etc., both for general party propaganda and for individual candidates.16.3 For conduct of free and fair poll, all political parties should avoid transactions in cash. Allparty functionaries should be advised not to carry large amount of cash in the constituencyduring the election campaign. The parties are required to exercise self-restraint in electionexpenditure and advise their candidates for doing so.16.4. The parties should submit before the ECI, the list of donations received in the relevant formsand in stipulated time. They should also audit their accounts and file their income taxreturns in the prescribed time, mentioning details of receipts and expenses.17. Training :17.1. In depth training of all the officers involved in the process of expenditure monitoring isneeded. CEO will prepare State specific training material in English, Hindi (in Hindispeaking states) and vernacular language and send the English version to the Commissionfor approval. Once it is approved, it shall be handed over to the trainers in each district.17.2. The CEO will appoint a Joint/Addl. CEO, who will be in charge of the ExpenditureMonitoring Cell and Training on expenditure. He will be the Master Trainer who will betrained by the Commission. The DEO will appoint one ADM/SDM level officer to be theNodal officer of Expenditure Monitoring of the district. The Joint/Addl. CEO will train allthe District Level Nodal officers. The Nodal Officer of expenditure monitoring cell of eachdistrict in turn will be in charge of the training of all the officers to be deployed in variousteams such as Control Room/Call Center, Accounting Team, Video Viewing Team, Video46