Final Cover Election Expenditure - Election Commission of India

(2) The account shall contain such particulars, as may be prescribed.(3) The total of the said expenditure shall not exceed such amount as may be prescribed.(As per explanation 1(a) read with Explanation 2 under sub-section (1) of Section 77 ofthe Representation of the People Act, 1951, the expenditure incurred by leaders ofpolitical party on account of travel for propagating programme of the party shall not bedeemed to be expenditure in connection with the election, incurred or authorized by thecandidate or his agent)78. Lodging of account with the District Election Officer.- [(1)] Every contesting candidateat an election shall, within thirty days from the date of election of the returned candidate or,if there are more than one returned candidate at the election and the dates of their electionare different, the later of those two dates, lodge with the [ district election officer] an accountof his election expenses which shall be a true copy of the account kept by him or by hiselection agent under section 77.]10A. Disqualification for failure to lodge account of election expenses.- if the ElectionCommission is satisfied that a person-(a)(b)has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the time and in the mannerrequired by or under this Act; andhas no good reason or justification for the failure,the Election Commission shall, by order published in the Official Gazette, declare himto be disqualified and any such person shall be disqualified for a period of three yearsfrom the date of the order.[The Supreme Court has in L.R. Shivaramagowde Vs. P.M. Chandrashekar- AIR 1999SC 252 held that the Commission can go into the correctness of the account of electionexpenses filed by the candidate and disqualify a candidate under Section 10A of theRepresentation of the People Act, 1951 in case the account is found to be incorrect oruntrue]127A. Restrictions on the printing of pamphlets, posters etc.-(1) No person shall print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, any electionpamphlet or poster which does not bear on its face the names and addresses of the printerand the publisher thereof.(2) No person shall print or cause to be printed any election pamphlet or poster-(a) unless a declaration as to the identity of the publisher thereof, signed by him and attestedby two persons to whom he is personally known, is delivered by him to the printer induplicate; and(b) unless, within a reasonable time after the printing of the document, one copy of thedeclaration is sent by the printer, together with one copy of the document,-55