Monitoring of
Election Expenditure
ELECTION EXPENDITURE OBSERVERSHIMACHAL PRADESH - 2012
QUOTE
The spirit of democracy is not a
mechanical thing to be adjusted by
abolition of forms. It requires change of
hearts. Democracy is something that
gives the weak the same chance as
strong.
-Mahatma Gandhi
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
To recall major legal provisions related to EEM,
 To supervise the teams involved in EEM, to train
all officials of EEMs
 To co-ordinate with Nodal Officers of the DEO
office, CEO office, Nodal Officer of Police H. Qtrs
and Nodal officer of state excise deptt.
 To explain provisions of EEM mechanism to
candidates, to facilitate them in proper
maintenance
of
accounts
and
record
discrepancies at the time of inspection
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 To
identify discrepancies with evidence,
when candidates lodge accounts,
 To assist DEO in making proper scrutiny
of accounts after 30 days of declaration
of result
 To send reports to the Commission in
time
 To ensure safe keeping of the evidences,
gathered during election process
USE OF MONEY POWER
Without Money, Multi-party democracy cannot
function
But ‘Money Power’ involves certain risks:

Uneven Playing
competition,
field
and

Political Exclusion – Certain sectors face
disadvantage,
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Co-Opted politicians under campaign debts,

Tainted Governance
undermined.
and
lack
Rule
of
of
fair
Law
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How money can influence politics
Small/medium
donors
Candidate’s
personal funds
Big donors
Party member dues
Public funding
Party &
candidate
campaign funds
Officials salary
surcharges
illegal
sources
MONITORING: RELATED ISSUES
 Carrying
cash is not illegal under any
Law and is not anathema to regular
business

But if it is undisclosed, Income Tax
Department can seize
 If
it is out of illegal foreign exchange,
ED can seize
 If
it is suspected to be for bribery,
terror, theft, narcotics etc, Police
authorities can seize
ARTICLE 324 (1) OF
THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA: Empowers
the
ECI
with
the
superintendence, direction and control
of and the conduct of elections. Based on
same such instructions are issued, as
deemed necessary for free and fair conduct
of elections. Such instructions are binding
on all involved in election process.
 The
officers/ officials on election duty are on
deputation with the ECI during elections and
ECI’s disciplinary rules/ code of conduct shall be8
applicable in case of misconduct, if any.
LEGAL PROVISIONS
Representation
of
People’s Act, 1951
Conduct of Election
Rules, 1961
Indian Penal Code, 1860
Income Tax laws
:
TYPES OF ELECTION EXPENDITURE
Election expenditure can be classified
into two types on the basis of legal
provisions
Expenditure
permissible under the
law
[public
meetings,
posters, banners, vehicle
etc.]
Ceiling for
Gujarat-16,00,000
Himachal- 11,00,000
Lok Sabha- 40 lakh
Illegal
election
expenditure [Distribution
of money, Gifts, liquor or
any other item among
electors with the purpose of
influencing them]
Such
type
of
expenditure of election
expenses
of
the
candidate is stopped
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MAJOR LEGAL PROVISIONS RELATED TO ELECTION
EXPENDITURE MONITORING
Sec 10A:
Disqualification for
failure to lodge
account of election
expenses
• Failing to lodge an account of election
expenses within time and manner
required or has no good reason or
justification for the failure
• Disqualified for a period of three
years
Sec 77: Account of
Election Expenses
and maximum
thereof
• Candidate/Election agent shall keep
an separate, correct account of
election
expenditure
incurred/authorized between date of
nomination & declaration of results.
Sec 78 : Lodging of
account with District
Election Officer
• Within 30 days from the date of
election, contesting candidate should
lodge with DEO true copy of election
expenses kept by him/election agent
Learning Module of RO/ARO
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MAJOR LEGAL PROVISIONS RELATED TO ELECTION
EXPENDITURE MONITORING
Rule 85B:
Form of
Contributions
Report
• Report for any financial year to be submitted by
treasurer of party in Form 24A to the ECI, but before
due date for furnishing return of income for that year.
Rule 86:
Particulars of
account of
election
expenses
• Account of election expenses to be kept by
candidate/election agent to contain following items w.r.t
daily expenditure:
• Date of expenditure incurred/authorized
• Nature of expenditure
• Amount of expenditure – amount paid and amount
outstanding
• Date of payment
• Name and address of payee
• Serial no. of voucher in case already paid
• Serial number of bills in case of payment outstanding
• Name and address of person to whom amt. outstanding
is payable
• All vouchers to lodged along with election expense
account chronologically and serially numbered
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MAJOR LEGAL PROVISIONS RELATED TO
ELECTION EXPENDITURE MONITORING
Rule 87:
Notice by
[DEO] for
inspection of
accounts
Rule 88:
Inspection of
accounts and
obtaining
copies thereof
• Within two days of receipt of accounts,
DEO to affix a notice specifying date on
which accounts were lodged, name of
candidate and time and place where
accounts can be inspected
• Any person can inspect accounts lodged
by candidates on payment of Re.1 fee
• Entitled to obtain attested copies of
accounts/any part of such account lodged
on payment of fee as fixed by ECI
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TO RECALL THE MAJOR LEGAL PROVISIONS RELATED
TO ELECTION EXPENDITURE MONITORING
Rule 89:
Report by
the [DEO]
as to the
lodging of
account of
election
expenses
and the
decision
of the ECI
thereon
• (1) As specified regarding lodging of accounts,
DEO to send report to ECI specifying:
• Name of contesting candidate
• Whether such candidate has lodged account of
expenses and if so, the date on which it was lodged
• If account has been lodged in time and in right
manner as per DEO opinion
• (2) If not lodged in time and correct manner,
attaching the account of expenses and vouchers
• (3) Publish copy of same on notice board
• (4) Where ECI finds that accounts have not been
lodged in time or in right manner, shall issue
show cause notice to candidate to demand why
he should not be disqualified under Sec 10A
• (5) Candidate to send response to notice within 10
days to ECI and copy to DEO
• (6) DEO to forward the copy to ECI with comments,
if any, within 5 days of receipt
• (7) If ECI finds no valid justification in candidate’s
representation, shall disqualify for 3 years from
date of order and publish in Official Gazette
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THE LEGAL PROVISIONS RELATED TO ELECTION
EXPENDITURE MONITORING
RP ACT, 1951
Sec 127A:
Restrictions
on the
printing of
pamphlets,
posters, etc.
• Election pamphlet/poster which does
not bear the name & addresses of the
printer /publisher shall not be
printed
• Declaration as to the identity of the
publisher is to be sent to the printer
signed by publisher and attested by 2
persons personally known to him
• Copy of the declaration and the
document should be sent by the
printer to the CEO/District
Magistrate as per location
• Imprisonment upto 6 months /fine
up to Rs. 2000/ both
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PROVISIONS OF INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
171 B – Bribery
171 E –
Punishment for
bribery
171 C – Undue
influence at
elections
171 F –
Punishment for
undue influence
at elections
• Any person giving or accepting
gratification to induce a person to exercise
his electoral right would commit the
offence of bribery.
• Gratification – Offering gratification,
agreeing to give gratification,
attempting to procure gratification shall
be deemed as giving gratification.
• one year imprisonment or fine or both.
• Any Act which voluntarily interferes or
attempts to interfere with the free exercise
of any electoral right.
• one year imprisonment or fine or both.
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PROVISIONS OF THE
INDIAN PENAL CODE, 1860
171 H – Illegal
payments in
connection with an
election
171 I – Failure to
keep election
accounts
Punishment for not
maintaining accounts
• Expenditure done by any person/
organization for a candidate without his
written permission would be considered
illegal whether the expenditure is in
relation to a public meeting,
advertisements, publication or in any
other way.
• If the candidate does not maintain an
account of his election expenditure in
the manner specified by ECI
• A fine up to rupees 500.
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ELECTION EXPENDITURE: CASE LAW
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1.
2.
The Hon’ble Supreme Court in L. R. Shivaramagowde
Vs. P.M. Chandrashekhar - AIR 1999 SC 252 has
observed that the Election Commission of India:
Can go into the correctness of the account of the
election expenses filed by the candidate, and
Disqualify a candidate under section 10 A of
the
Representation of the People Act, 1951 in case the account
is found to be incorrect or untrue.
Grounds:
The candidate does not lodge an account of election
expenses in time and manner.
The account lodged by the candidate is incorrect and
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untrue.
ELECTION COMMISSION’S POWERS:
In case of Ashok Chauhan and Madhu Kora,
Delhi High Court held:
“…the commission can go into the
truthfulness
or
untruthfulness
of
accounts. How far the Commission can go
will be a question of degree. It will be
realm of exercise of power.”
Tamil Nadu elections : VIDEO
Let
us watch a video on the
cash seizures made by the
during general elections to
Tamil Nadu.
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Forty Ways of use of
‘Black money’ in elections
1. Cash in envelopes in morning newspapers pushed beneath the door of
the voter.
2. Inside Morning Milk pouch, along with cash in an envelope to the voter.
3. Through Self Help Groups (SHG) for onward distribution among women
voters.
4. Through pawnbrokers by reimbursing the short term loan taken by
voters, by mortgaging jewellery.
5. Paying cash as incentive for not casting vote by the committed voters of
other rival candidate, if such voter shows his finger without indelible ink
after election.
6. Cash given in advance before notification of election to the local leaders
for distribution among voters.
7. Cash given through community feasts under the plate or banana leaf.
8. Cash given in the name of MGREGA, DWACRA and other government
projects.
9. Cash given to dummy candidates for using the permission obtained by
them for the campaign vehicles or political agents.
10.Cash given to certain non-serious persons of a locality to contest to
divide votes of rivals.
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Cash given to Leaders of rival political parties, rival candidates not
to seriously campaign in elections.
Black Money raised by party/candidate in name of coupon
sale.
Cash given to the polling agents of rivals candidates, to be silent,
during counting.
Cash given to village headman for ensuring votes.
Cash given to village fund on the eve of election for construction
of road or temple or school, etc.
Distributing Cash among the Ladies who come for “Aarti” to
candidate.
Distributing Cash for those who come to attend public rally
arranged by party or candidate.
Making Cash payment for the vehicles or Trucks for ferrying the
voters to the place of rally or to the polling booth.
Cash given to journalists or media men to write positively about
the candidate or to write pessimistic news of rivals.
Cash given to journalists/media men to blackout the news about
the rivals or to publish negative news.
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Cash transferred through RTGS route of banks to the a/c’s.
Cash given to the youth clubs on the eve of elections for
organizing cricket match, football match.
Cash given for charity like organizing medical camp, melody party,
theatres etc., on the eve of elections.
Distributing TVs, video recorders & projectors to village clubs.
Giving cash for constructing toilets, tubewells or mobile phone
with top up cards or laptops to the voters or local leaders.
Organizing mass marriage functions during election process and
bearing the entire cost of marriage.
Distributing SUVs or Luxurious vehicles to appease local party
leaders.
Reimbursing fuel bills through negotiated deals with petrol
pumps.
Promising jobs for the unemployed youth in the academic
institutes or companies of the candidate.
Organizing religious functions like “Prabachan” Ramayan”
“Hanuman Chalisha” etc. before elections.
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Distribution free books to the students, just before elections.
Free admission to children of influential voters of a locality in
Engineering College or medical college run by the candidate.
Distributing free cows or buffalos among voters before election.
Distributing free agriculture seeds and manures among the voters.
Distributing free solar lamps among the rural voters.
Distributing diaries, calendars, purse, T-shirt, sarees and vanity
bags.
Using ‘Aarthiyas’ (commission agents) for distribution of cash
among farmers or waiving his commission demanded form the
farmers.
Cash given to religious leaders or leaders of a caste for ensuring
votes of their followers.
Distribution of liquor, drugs, poppy husks among the voters.
Organizing rallies with film stars, musicians, orchestra, important
personalities in aircrafts or helicopters to the constituency and not
showing the correct expenditure.
Modes of Transport of Cash
In ambulance vans
 In bonnet of the car
 Inside door panels of the car
 On roof top of buses
 In police vans
 In Helicopters
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JHARKHAND ELECTIONS TO RS: VIDEO
Let
us watch a video on the
cash seizures made by the
Income Tax Deptt. during the
Rajya Sabha Elections in
Jharkhand state.
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MALPRACTICES IN
RAJYASABHA ELECTION
 Jharkhand
Issue and Judgment of Patna
High Court:
“….it is the only step of such great
consequence taken by the ECI after
independence of our country and in our
opinion, the decision is fully supported
by reason and based upon cogent and
trustworthy evidence, though limited to
purpose, so as to not to give chance to
any person to enjoy high status of being
member of parliament.”
Preventive methods for curbing the use
of Black Money
 Campaign
for ethical voting through
Media
 Announcement through Public address
system fitted on the vehicles of the Flying
Squads
 Separate Bank account by each candidate
 Involvement of school and college students
in spreading the message against bribery
during elections
 Involving Civil Society Organisations,
RWA. NYKs etc
ETHICAL VOTING
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Let us watch a video on
“ Ethical Voting”
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Mechanism for
Election Expenditure
Monitoring in
Assembly Elections
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EXPENDITURE MONITORING
New Mechanism will work on behalf of
DEO and will assist him in sending a
proper and fair Scrutiny report on the
statements of expenses submitted by the
candidates within 30 days of declaration of
result.
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 The
MECHANISM
MEETING WITH POLITICAL PARTIES
 DEO
will have a meeting with all recognised Political
Parties within 3 days of announcement of election about
the new instructions of the Commission and explain the
legal provisions and give a copy of the compendium of
instructions,
 He will also discuss the various rates of expenditure and
consider their suggestions before notification of rates,
 CEO will arrange facilitation training at State Level on
Expenditure
Monitoring
Measures
for
the
representatives of all registered political parties of the
state, to explain various legal provisions including the
procedures.
NOTIFICATION OF RATES FOR ASSESSMENT OF
EXPENDITURE
After consulting with all the parties, the DEO shall notify the local
rates of various items of election expenditure for his district within
three days of announcement of elections. This has to be done before
filing of the nomination papers in any case,
2. It should be made clear in the notification that election expenses of every
candidate would be assessed on the basis of these rates,
3. The list of these rates would be given by the RO to the candidates at
the time of filing of nomination papers,
4. If the rate of any item is not available in the list, the candidate/election
agent, if they wish, may apply with the DEOs to notify the rates for
such items as well and the DEOs will take appropriate steps to notify
them,
5. Any objection by the candidate regarding the quantum of such rates
has to be made to the DEO within 24 hours of notification.
6. To obtain airing charges from media houses
1.
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RATES OF ITEMS TO BE FIXED AFTER CONSULATATION
WITH POLITICAL PARTIES:
Loudspeaker with
amplifier and
microphone
Cloth banner, Cloth
flags, Hand bills,
Posters,
Video Cassettes/CDs,
Audio Cassettes/CDs,
podium or Pandal
of standard sizes,
Hoardings, Cut
outs (wooden),
Cut outs
(Cloth/plastic),
Daily hiring
charges of
vehicles (all types
of vehicles),
chairs, tables and other
furniture, electrical
fittings/equipments,
Print media
advertisements
and DAVP rates
Audio slots on Radio &
AV on TV, cable TV,
State & National Level
Learning Module of RO/ARO
TV Channels
Any other item
commonly used in
a district.
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TWO TRAINING PROGRAMMES
The DEO will arrange two facilitation training prog.’s at his own
office for all election agents/candidates through the Exp.
Monitoring cell ,
 One, immediately on the day of scrutiny of nomination in
presence of Expenditure Observers to acquaint them with the
legal provisions, procedures for filling up the forms and registers
and dates of inspection of accounts,
 Second, within a week before the final date of submission of
accounts in presence of Asst. Exp. Observers ( i.e., after 20
days of declaration of results) with all election
agents/candidates/personnel engaged in his office for receiving the
accounts, regarding the procedure for filling up the forms of Abstract
Statements of Election Expenses and affidavits, consequences for
failure and other legal provisions.
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NEW EXPENDITURE MONITORING MACHINERY
 Expenditure
Observer (EO)
 Asst. Expenditure Observer (AEO)
 Flying Squad and Static Surveillance
Teams (FS and SST)
 Video Surveillance Team (VST)
 Video Viewing Team (VVT)
 Media Certification and Monitoring
Committee (MCMC)
 Accounting Team
 Liquor monitoring Team
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EXPENDITURE OBSERVER: EO
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To be appointed by the Commission.
 EO’s are eyes and ears of the Commission
 Responsible
for
overall
supervision
of
expenditure monitoring for two or more Assembly
segments.
 They will appoint Asst. Expenditure Observers
for each constituency out of the list provided by DEO
 They will train the Asst. Expenditure Observers and
inspect functioning of different teams engaged in
expenditure monitoring in each constituency
 They will coordinate with various law enforcement
agencies of Income tax, Police, BSF/SSB, State Excise
and DRI
 They will assist the DEO in preparation of scrutiny
report
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS
 Expenditure
Observers for each district
 Assistant
Expenditure Observer for each
constituency
 More
number of Observers and Assistant
Observers in ESC (Expenditure sensitive
constituency)
 More
number of Flying Squads and Static
Surveillance teams with man power from
central Govt. and central PSUs and CPF
THE TEAMS
DEO
Expenditure Observer
Expenditure
Monitoring Cell
R.O.
MCMC
(Dist./ State
Level)
VVT
VST
Public
meeting/Rally
Accounting Team
(SOR / FE )
AEO
Expenditure monitoring
control room
24x7 Call Centre
SST – Check
post monitoring
teams
F S- complaints of
cash transactions
/freebies
Illegal Expenditure.
ROLE OF DEO
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The DEO is responsible for the entire expenditure
monitoring effort in the district.
The DEO will be assisted by the Expenditure
Monitoring Cell and various teams.
The DEO shall extend all help to the RO, the
Observer and the Asst. Expenditure Observers in
performing their functions.
The DEO shall prepare a list of Central Government
and Central PSU employees and give it to the
Observer for appointment of Asst. Expenditure
Observers.
The DEO shall provide logistical support to all the
expenditure monitoring teams.
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ROLE OF DEO
He shall make appeal to public about restrictions on
carrying cash,
 He shall give wide publicity about the Call centre
and complaint monitoring mechanism,
 He shall involve NYKs, NSS and other citizen forums
to inform about distribution of cash and other gift items
among electors,
 He shall appeal to public and students for ethical
voting and educate them that both receiver and giver of
bribe will be punishable,
 He shall be responsible for training of the manpower
engaged in Expenditure monitoring teams and election
agents.
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EXPENDITURE MONITORING CELL
This cell at district level will consist of a Nodal Officer on behalf of DEO, of
the rank of SDM/ADM and two officials, who will be in charge of
Expenditure monitoring training and coordination with all the teams
engaged in expenditure monitoring,
 It will be responsible for expenditure monitoring efforts on behalf of DEO
in the district coordination with various teams, providing manpower and
logistical support like space and equipments,
 First and second training of the Asstt. Expenditure Observers and all
the officials engaged in various teams should be done by the Nodal
Officers of Expenditure Monitoring Cell of the District as soon as the
elections are announced,
 This cell will keep custody of all shadow observation registers and
folders of evidence after the poll,
 It will assist the DEO and Expenditure Observer in finalizing the scrutiny
report to be submitted after declaration of result.
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VIDEO SURVEILLANCE TEAM
Video
Surveillance
Team (VST)
• Minimum One official, one videographer and one vehicle
• Can be more than 1 team at a public meeting,
• Properly trained to identify and capture MCC and
expenditure related events in adequate minute details as
required,
• At the beginning of shooting, the team will record in
voice mode the title and type of event , date, place and
the name of the party or the candidate organizing the
same.
• It will capture the photo in such a way that the evidence of
each vehicle, furniture, rostrum, banner, cutout etc.
can be seen clearly and the expense thereon can be
estimated,
• At the end of shooting, the team may also record in voice
mode the estimated number and type of vehicles,
Chairs,
furniture,
approx
size
of
rostrum/banner/poster/cutout etc. used in the event.
• This team will prepare a video cue-sheet in the format
given at Annexure-7 of the instructions. This cue-sheet
contains the highlights of the recording with date and time.
Therefore it should be ensured by the team that the time
and date set up in the camera is correct.
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VIDEO VIEWING TEAM
Video
Viewing
Team
(VVT)
• 1 officer and 2 clerks (or as required) for each assembly
segment ,as viewing all CD’s is a time consuming task,
• View Video CD provided by VST for identifying election
expenditure and MCC related issues,
• Submit report containing candidate wise expenditure no
later than next day to Accounting Team/ Asst. EO, on public
rally including the vehicle numbers, number of chairs, size of
Dias, audio system, posters , banners, helicopter expense,
media advertisements and Paid News, names of candidates
• MCC related report to General Observer and RO
Learning Module of RO/ARO
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ACCOUNTING TEAM
Accounting
Team
• One official and one accounting clerk per
segment
• Drafted from employees of accounts wing of
Central Govt. depts.
• Work under Asst. EO, involved in
preparation of Shadow Observation
Register and maintaining videos/ CD
evidences carefully in Evidence Folder. To
maintain proper back-up which can be
called by Commission later.
• Will enter items of expenditure and
corresponding notified rates against each in the
Shadow Observation Register, reported by
various teams and calculate the total
expenditure of the event observed for
each candidate.
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MONITORING OF CAMPAIGN THROUGH:MCMC
Print
Media
Electronic
Media
Local
Newspapers
Radio including
Private FM
Other
newspapers in
circulation in
area
TV channels,
cable network
Magazines
Bulk SMS
Pamphlets &
Posters
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DISTRICT LEVEL MCMC – TO OPERATE 24X7
• Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC)refer latest instructions of ECI on ‘paid news’ dt: 27.08.12 put
on the website,
• A Dist. Level MCMC comprising DEO/RO (of Parliamentary
Constituency), ARO (not below SDM),Central Govt. I&B
Official(if any) and 1 citizen/ journalist nominee of Press
Council of India/ DPRO or DIO equivalent- member secy.
• Certifying advt. proposals of candidates,
• Scanning media for suspected ‘paid news’ and examination of
complaints, reference by EO.
• RO to issue notice to candidate within 96 hrs. and on receipt of
reply from candidate Dist. Level MCMC to decide expeditiously
& convey decision to candidate. If he/she does not reply within
48 hrs of recpt. of decision then Distt. MCMC decision is final .
• EO to report to ECI immediately on Paid News
• Infrastructure – in separate room - 3-4 TVs with cable, all
newspapers including local,
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MAINTENANCE OF SHADOW OBSERVATION
REGISTER (SOR) & FOLDER OF EVIDENCE
SOR for each candidate to be
maintained by the Accounting
Team on the basis of
observation of expenditure by
various teams/reports on
Expenditure Monitoring and as
per notified rates
Daily
information
received from
VST, VVT,
SST, MCMC
etc.
Asst.
Expenditure
Observer to
make daily
inspection of
SOR of every
candidate
Folder of Evidence maintained
along with SOR by Accounting
Team
All pieces of
evidence
collected against
any expenditure
noted in SOR
shall be kept and
cross-referenced
with SOR
All Pages to be
signed by Asst.
Expenditure
Observer
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SHADOW
(SOR) &
OBSERVATION
REGISTER
FOLDER OF EVIDENCE (FE)
SOR is for each of the Contesting Candidates in a
constituency
refer:
ANNEXURE-11
of
the
Instructions. To record all expenses made by them
towards election campaign,
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All expenditure recorded to be supported by
CD/Video evidences held in FE and to be crosschecked during Inspections and signatures taken
candidates or their authorized agents,
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The said SOR & FE to be handed to the Dy.DEO by
the EO for safe custody before leaving the
constituency, under receipt. Which can be
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requisitioned by the ECI later, if required.
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PREVENTIVE MEASURES : FLYING SQUADS
FS- to attend
to all
complaints
related to
election
expenditure &
MCC
Receive
complaints
forwarded by
Complaint
Monitoring
Centre or
forwarded
from CEO
Office
Take
immediate
action on
receipt of
complaints
which will
provide
complete
contact details
of complainant
Wherever not
possible to
reach within ½
hour, send
static team or
local SHO and
monitor action
taken by the
officials
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FLYING SQUADS
All action
taken by
FS/SST/Local
SHO to be
videographed
Complainant
to be
contacted in
case of
clarification
FS- report
action taken
to District
Control
Room/ Call
Centre
Forward
Daily Report
(in Ann.
prescribed)
to SP & DEO
and copy to
EO
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STATIC SURVEILLANCE TEAMS (SST)
•
•
•
•
The Static Teams shall be formed under each Police
Station comprising of one magistrate, 3-4 Police
personnel and one videographer.
Static Team will start operation from the date of the
press announcement of election and will operate till
day of poll in the Constituency.
They will be responsible for putting the check post on
major road/arterial road to check any movement of
illegal cash/liquor/arms or large volume of gift items
meant for distribution among voters.
There should be surprise elements in putting the
check posts so that one can not anticipate about
its placement. The Flying Squad of the district
will supervise the posting of the Static
Team/Check Post in such a way to avoid
repetitive checking of the same passenger /
vehicle or to avoid two check posts on the same
road.
STATIC SURVEILLANCE TEAMS

The entire activity at the check post should be video
graphed and the DVD handed over to Accounting Team,
for keeping in `folder of evidence`.

Any member of public may ask and take copy the Video
DVD/CD for a particular day by depositing Rs. 300/-.

It will submit a Daily Activity report in prescribed
format (Annexure-9) to SP, RO and Assistant Expenditure
Observer ,

The Nodal Officer at Police Headquarters at State
level will compile the Daily Activity reports of Flying
Squads and Surveillance Team and send to the CEO and
Commission.
EO to have coordination meeting with all law
enforcement agencies of district and the teams.
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SOP FOR FS/ SST
 Flying
Squad will supervise operation of
SST’s and law and order issues arising out of the
operation,
 Flying
Squad will be in constant touch with
officials of Income Tax Deptt., State Excise
Deptt etc. and pass on information of cash, liquor,
gift items found by them,
 Flying
Squad or Static Surveillance Team will seize
cash or other items under CrPC/ IPC, if
criminality is suspected.
Criminality is determined,
if they find:
Banner/poster/v
oter slip/any
campaign
material
along with cash or
gift
Arms or illicit
items along with
cash or gift
Cash in custody
of any party
official or
candidate or his
agents or any
other modus
operandi
leading to crime
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Utmost care to ensure all politeness,
decency and courtesy
Seizure has
to be done
with proper
Panchnama/
Acknowledge
ment
The FIR to be
Copy
authority lodged and forwarded to
whom to also put in
SP, DEO,
Exp.
appeal and notice board
procedure
of RO.
Observer,
for appeal
Nodal Officer
of Police and
must be
mentioned in
Police
Observer
the seizure
order
(If any)
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STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE : SOP
 Advertisement
to be done by DEO and CEO in
local language through Flying Squads / media
regarding the enforcement measures & advising
the public and political functionaries not to carry
huge cash during election process without proper
documents
 If criminality suspected, the teams can seize

If cash more than Rs. 2.5 lacs and no criminality is
suspected, then Income tax officials in charge of the
district to be informed, who should reach within half
an hour on receipt of information.
SOP
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The whole event of checking and seizure has to
be video graphed by the video team and vehicles
of politicians are also to be checked.
During checking by SST’s- a board be displayed for
public knowledge mentioning “ Checking by orders of
Election Commission. Thanks for cooperation”.
SOP
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No seizure to be effected irrespective of the
amount after obtaining a declaration form in the
following cases:
If cash being carried from business place to bank
for being deposited in bank, (PAN card/ business
registration certificate/ bank pass book/
bank a/c
statement/ copy of cash book to show regular deposits.
bank deposit slip to be submitted after depositing the
amount in bank),
Cash is for disbursal of salary,
Cash carried for emergency medical treatment,
Cash carried for marriage purposes,
Cash carried by ATM vans of the bank for purpose
belonging to bank, if accompanied with valid documents,
Cash carried by co-op. societies with valid
documentation,
SOP
In case cash seized by SST/FS
Appellate authority is the SDM/ADM of that
Distt. (in charge of the expenditure monitoring cell).
 In case of Income tax deptt.
Appellate Authority is Joint. / Addl. Director of
Income Tax (Inv.) in charge of the Distt.

The appellate authority shall hear the cases
and take appropriate steps for redressal of
grievance/s as per law.
CHENNAI HIGH COURT DECISION
 While
dismissing the writ suo motu No.
8022 of 2011, the court held:-
.... it must be ensured that under the guise of
following rules strictly, innocent people
should not be targeted and therefore Election
Commission makes publication in the
language known to people of this state about
above said provisions. Moreover as and when
seizure is effected, it should be stated as to
whom the citizen has to approach and what
all particulars are to be furnished. ……. these
particulars are necessary not only to see that the
election code of conduct is properly implemented,
but also to make sure that it will not have adverse
effect on the innocent and genuine persons.
Visit of EO’s
To reach the constituency on the day of notification of
elections for a duration of 3 days,
 He shall appoint the AEO from the list provided by the
DEO,
 To leave the constituency after submitting the poll
preparedness report,
 2nd Visit on date immediately after the date of
withdrawal of candidature and remain in the
constituency during entire campaign period and leave
the constituency only after the completion of poll,
 3rd visit after 30 days from declaration of results and
assist in finalisation of scrutiny report by DEO.
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REPORTS TO BE FORWARDED BY EO TO THE ECI
1. Arrival / Departure Report: Within 24 hrs.
2. Expenditure Observer Report -I: Ann.-3A (Pg. 62) within 3 days after the date of notification ie: on 3rd day
of his visit .
3. Expenditure Observer Report-II: Ann.-3B (Pg. 64) –
within 3 days after withdrawal of candidature ie: during
2nd visit.
4. Expenditure Observer Report-III: Ann.-4 (Pg. 66)after Completion of Poll.
5. Expenditure Observer Final Report-IV: Ann.-5
(Pg. 69) –During 3rd visit.
6. Scrutiny & Summary Report of DEO: Ann. 21(Pg.
111& 114) For comments & counter signature of EO ie:
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during 3rd visit.
REPORTS TO BE FORWARDED BY EO TO THE ECI
7. Other reports : on ‘Paid news’ and ‘Cash
seizures’ etc. on same day,

And most importantly Report of any gross
expenditure/ corrupt practice which warrants
postponement of poll on the same day.
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INSPECTION OF ACCOUNTS OF
ELECTION EXPENDITURE
 Candidates
are required to maintain Day to Day
Accounts and produce for Inspection 3 times or more
before the Expenditure Observer or any officer
authorised. He will ensure that RO gives the Register
in new format with its three parts i.e. Day to day
accounts, Cash and Bank Register,
 He will ensure that copy of the ECI’s new Instruction
on expenditure monitoring is issued to the
candidates and all the teams are trained as per the
new Instruction,
 He will ensure that RO notifies 3 dates & timing well
in advance for inspection of accounts maintained by
the candidates,
INSPECTION OF ACCOUNTS
 Gap
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between the two inspection should not be less
than 3 days and inspection to be done in such a way
that major portion of expenses are covered under
inspection,
 Candidate can have a separate agent for
election expenses,
 Inspection to be done in the office chamber of
RO or any other Office room NOT AT THE
GUEST HOUSE between 10AM to 5PM,
 Publicity has to be given about his contact
number and time of inspection,
INSPECTION OF ACCOUNTS
The Asst. Expenditure Observer to be present with
Shadow Observation
Register and folder of
evidence,
 Inspection to be done by Expenditure Observer only
and where he is not available for inspection, the reasons
should be intimated to the Commission,
 He will record in writing in the register maintained by
the candidate the details of excess expenditure, if any,
as per the evidences gathered by various teams and
obtain a photocopy of the register of candidates,
 Commission considers the comments of Expenditure
Observer in the register at the time of
disqualification proceedings,
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INSPECTION OF ACCOUNTS
 He
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will also get the signature of the candidate
or his agent on the Shadow Observation
Register,
 Instances of Paid News will also be noted in the
register and report along with copies of such
news to be sent to Commission,
 RO to issue notice to candidate on the same
day on all such discrepancies and also on all
advertisements / Paid News
 He will obtain a photocopy of the accounts
maintained by the candidates after his
signature and RO will display a copy on the
notice board
INSPECTION OF ACCOUNTS
 Notice
to be issued to candidate in case of failure to
lodge accounts for inspection and FIR to be filed if
failure continues (Sec 171I of IPC),
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 Withdrawal
of permission for use of campaign
vehicle, if the failure continues in spite of notice,
 Intimation
of
such
withdrawal
of
permission to the Flying Squad to take the
vehicle out of campaign,
 Any
member of Public can obtain copy of Shadow
Observation Register after inspection, notices and
replies by candidates on payment of Re. 1/- per page.
REGISTRES MAINTAINED BY CANDIDATES TO
BE CHECKED DURING INSPECTIONS

Register for maintenance of day to day a/c’s of election
expenses by contesting candidates Refer annexure-14 of the
instructions :

DAILY REGISTER :
PART
-A (Color: WHITE
PAGES)

CASH
PART
-B
PAGES)

BANK
REGISTER:
(Color:
PINK
REGISTER: PART -C (Color: YELLOW
PAGES)
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SUPERVISION OF THE TEAMS BY EO
 He
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will supervise the functioning of various teams
engaged in Expenditure Monitoring and also the
functioning of Assistant Expenditure Observer,
 If he is not satisfied with the functioning of any of
the team or the Asst. Expenditure Observer, he will
ask the DEO to change such official and DEO will
provide the substitute,
 He will ensure that DEO provides the teams with the
necessary logistics. In case of any deficiency he will
bring it to the notice of DEO,
 In ESC, he may require more number of Asst.
Expenditure Observers or Flying squads or
static surveillance teams. DEO or SP will provide
such manpower
COMPLAINT MONITORING SYSTEM
Besides the call centre, the observer shall fix one hour time for hearing
of complaints every day in the office of the RO. This time will be given
wide publicity. Any complaints received by the observer will be inquired
into within 24 hours, and a copy of the report given to the observer
and also to the accounting team.
 There shall be a counter in the office of the RO to receive complaints
from the public. This counter shall remain open every day from 9 AM to 5
PM. All complaints received will be immediately given to the observer
for perusal. All complaints shall be inquired into within 24 hours and
copies of the report given to the Observer and the accounting team.
 Copies of all complaints received and reports of inquiries conducted
shall be put on the notice board of the RO for information of the Public.
Any member of the Public can obtain copies of these documents on
payment of a fee of Re. 1 per page.
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ASSISTANT EXPENDITURE OBSERVER
One Asst. Expenditure Observer (AEO) for
each Assembly segment.
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AEO’s will be from Central Govt., preferably from
Income Tax, Central Excise, Audit and Accounts or
Central PSUs.
They will be of the rank of ITO or Group ‘B’
Officers.
AEO’s are appointed from date of announcement of
election by DEO. On the arrival of EO in district
the list of AEO’s to be provided by DEO and EO
to choose his AEO from it and then train the AEO.
The AEO will tour extensively in the Assembly
Constituency and make an assessment of the election
expenditure of the candidate.
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ASSISTANT EXPENDITURE OBSERVER
Assistant Expenditure Observer will supervise and
ensure action on all complaints in relation to
election expenses of the candidate of his jurisdiction,
 He will be responsible for maintenance of Shadow
Observation Register and folder of evidence,
 He will assist the Expenditure Observer during
inspection of accounts,
 He will report to the Expenditure Observer,
 He would assist the Expenditure Observer and the
DEO in scrutiny of the account election expenses
submitted after the declaration of result.
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LODGING OF ACCOUNTS OF ELECTION EXPENSES:
Candidates are required to lodge their accounts of election
expenses with the DEO within 30 days of declaration of result in
manner prescribed, along with the register of election expenses
(U/s. 78 of the RP Act,1951)
 Documents required to be filed:
1. Part I to Part VI of Abstract statement signed by the
candidate ,
2. Certified Copy of Bank statement ,
3. Affidavit signed by the candidate
4. Register of Day-to-day Accounts with all bills and vouchers in
original duly signed,
5. Copies of expenditure related notices issued by RO and replies
to such notices,
6. Replies to discrepancies pointed out at the time of Inspection,
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AFFIDAVIT OF ASSET AND LIABILITY
To file Affidavit of Asset and Liability along with nomination of
self, spouse and dependant children as per revised format,
 Affidavit to contain:
I. Actual value and cost of addition to
Immovable assets along with Market value,
II. Bank Deposits and Shares,
III. Actual liabilities including Govt.
dues and disputed liabilities
IV. PAN of self, spouse and children and
Income Tax paid as per last return,
V. Cases pending and Conviction Orders obtained
 Affidavit are to be scanned and uploaded to web site of CEO
within 24 hrs of receiving.
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OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES:
STAR CAMPAIGNERS
 All
Passengers going by private aircrafts and
helicopters will be frisked both in airports and
airstrips
 The candidate or Party shall inform about the travel
plan of the aircraft or helicopter 24 hrs in advance
for landing and take off in non commercial airports,
to DEO for security purpose
 Candidate shall inform the RO concerned within 3
days of landing about the hiring charges paid or
payable for helicopter /air craft and name of the
pol. Party incase hiring charges borne by it.
STAR CAMPAIGNER
List of Star campaigners to be submitted to CEO or the
Commission within 7 days of the notification and travel
expense of star campaigners of allied party are not
exempt (Allied party leaders not allowed exemption)
 If the Star campaigner travels with candidate or media
person, then 50% of the travel expense will be added to
the candidate
 If the candidate shares the Pandal with the Star
Campaigner or his photo or poster with his name is
exhibited in the meeting, then the meeting expense will
be added to his account
 Exemption of travel expenses: If any attendant, Security
Guard, Medical attendant or any person including any
member of the party not being a candidate in the
constituency and not playing any role in election
campaign for the candidate

RALLY EXPENSES
 All
public rallies and Public meetings (even before
notification and after announcement) to be
videographed
 Rally expense for filing nomination to be included
 Public who attend the rally in their own vehicle
without receiving any payment or without any flag,
banner or photo of candidate not to be included
 Commercial vehicles used for rally to be included in
expense
 Notional cost of fuel and driver salary of one
Personal vehicle used by the candidate to be added
(Notional cost of hiring in case of more than one
personal vehicle used)
 One vehicle of district level party officer ( Not being
the candidate) exempted
PRINTING PAMPHLETS, BANNERS AND
POSTERS
 The
print and electronic media, cable network and FM
radio will be closely monitored
 Prior approval of CEO before any broadcast or telecast
 Press or publisher name and address, number of copies
and amount charged to be mentioned in all printed
material including media advertisements and sent to
DEO immediately
 Advertisement in Print media to be covered under
section 127A of RP Act,1951
(copy of the printed material and declaration from the
publisher to be sent by the printer to CEO or DEO)
MONITORING OF VEHICLES
 Candidates
to submit before the RO details of
vehicles proposed to be used and obtain
permission in writing
 Permission
letter to be displayed on the wind
screen of vehicle
 Permission
given to a particular candidate being
used by another, vehicle to be seized and exp.
For entire period to be added
MONITORING OF BARRICADES AND
ROSTRUMS
 DEO
to notify the local rates of construction of
pandals or hiring of vehicles and other
expenses, in consultation with the political
parties before notification. In case of dissent/
difference then the word of DEO shall be final
when account are finalized.
 If
a group of candidates are present, the
expenses to be apportioned amongst all
OTHER INSTRUCTIONS:
 If
candidate attends a community kitchen, during
election campaign, (other than those organized by
religious communities and normal ceremonies like
marriage etc,) the entire expenditure will be added as
his election expenditure,
 If
the vehicle permitted to any independent candidate
or any other candidate is found carrying campaign
material of another candidate or being used for
campaign for any other candidate, the entire
expenditure on the vehicle from the date of permission
will be added to the candidate using it for his campaign
and permission will be withdrawn
MONITORING PRODUCTION,
STORAGE AND
DISTRIBUTION OF LIQUOR
 From
the date of announcement of election, the production, offtake, stock limits of stockists and retailers of IMFL/Beer/country
liquor are to be monitored district wise,
 Opening and closing of liquor vending shops are to closely
monitored,
 Intensive vigil over inter state movement of vehicles at RTO
check-posts and border check-posts by special enforcement staff of
Excise Deptt.,
 To conduct raids to seize illicit liquor,
 Inter state coordination of Excise Commissioners of the
bordering states,
 District level Nodal Officer to submit report every alternate day to
DEO, Exp. Observer and State Level Nodal Officer, who will
compile the state level report to Commission and CEO
(Annex.22).
Other Monitoring Measures
 The
bookings of marriage halls and Mandaps
to be monitored,
 Distribution
of gift items and cash coupons to
be closely monitored,
 Unusual
cash deposit/ withdrawal in account
of SHGs and NGOs,
 Disbursal
of
wages
under
ongoing
Government schemes only in presence of
Government officials during elections.
SOP: CHECKING OF HELICOPTERS/
AIRCRAFT
The Bureau of Civil Aviation Authority vide its OM dt. 14.02.12 has
issued inst. (ref. pg. 17 of the Instructions) making various
recommendations:
 During election process proper frisking and prembarkation, checking
of all persons, screening/ phy. Checking of baggage to be done,
 CISF to inform the Income Tax dept. if cash above 10lacs/ bullion is
detected in poll bound states,
 To install & capture on CC TV/ video all seizure/ release cases and
preserve the footage as it can be called by the ECI,
 No prior permission for landing/ takeoff at commercial airports from
DEO. But ATC to keep records of all such pvt. Aircrafts/ helicopters
and make available such info. To the CEO within 3 days of landing or89
takeoff. The CEO to share this info. With EO for accounting
purpose.

SOP: CHECKING OF HELICOPTERS/
AIRCRAFT
For airstrips not used for commercial purposes
applications to be made to the DEO concerned 24 hrs in
advance by candidate or pol. Party,
 Every candidate shall inform the RO concerned in
writing, regarding the details of expenditure incurred
on hiring such crafts and name of pol. Party if party
has borne the expenses
 Pol. Parties to inform the ECI in 75 days (for AC) and
in 90 days ( for PC) after completion of poll, details of
expenses borne on such hiring of crafts.
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ROLE ASSIGNED TO:
INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT
 To
gather intelligence and keep watch over
movement of cash in the constituency and take
necessary action under IT Laws
 To
watch all airports of the state, major railway
stations, hotels, farm houses, hawala agents,
financial brokers, Cash couriers, Pawn brokers
 To
keep watch over the airports outside the state
having commercial flights to the state going to poll
ROLE ASSIGNED TO
INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT
 To
depute one Asst./ Deputy Director level officer and two ITOs
/ 2-3 Inspectors in each district exclusively for the election duty,
 IT
Deptt. will open Air Intelligence Units in all airports of the poll
bound states and also shall keep vigil over movement of cash
through aircrafts/ helicopters leading to poll bound states,
 To
appoint a Nodal officer of the level of Addl./ Jt. director
I.
For coordination with election officials, other Nodal
officers, Expendture Observers,
II. For acting as Master trainer for the officers and staff
deployed,
III. For compilation of seizure reports every alternate day,
IV. For redressal of grievance of the persons.
ROLE ASSIGNED TO
INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT
To set up a 24X7 control room with toll free number under the DGIT, give
wide publicity and record all complaints,
 To take action where the amount is huge. For below 2.5 lakh forward
complaints to DEO- complaint monitoring cell and Expenditure Observer,
 To promptly reach the spot, where cash is found / intercepted by the
Flying squad / SST and take necessary steps,
 When it is not possible to deposit the cash on the same day for bank
holiday, treasury will keep the cash on joint signature in sealed cover,
till it is deposited in the bank,
 If IT officials decides to deposit the cash in challan, then the security of
FS to be provided to deposit the cash in designated bank and challan
handed over to person from whom cash was found,
 The flying Squad and security to be made available to Asst. Director,
when any operation is planned,

ROLE ASSIGNED TO:
INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT
List of officers/ officials deployed with mobile and fax no. to be given
to DEO and CEO,
 DEO to provide accommodation and vehicle to such teams, if
needed,
 To act on FIU reports sent during election process,
 If complaint about large scale cash in a business premise or
residence is received, necessary steps will be taken with the help of
police and FS. DEO to provide all security. Secrecy of the destination
is to be maintained and within half an hour of strike, DEO and CEO
to be informed
 If large amount of bank withdrawal is reported by DEO, the IT deptt.
will take necessary survey or search under IT laws
 Activity Report to be sent by Asst/Dy Director every alternate day and
DGIT to compile and send to Commission with copy to CEO (ANNEX-94
24)

ROLE ASSIGNED TO
INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT
 The
deployment will be from the date of announcement of election
till the end of poll,
 SOP issued from time to time for coordination with all the
departments,
 Income Tax Department can take suo motu action for which the
security will be provided by the DEO,
 If it is not possible to seize the amount under IT laws, then the IT
Deptt will pass on the information to CEO of the poll going state
to consider seizure by FS,
 IT Deptt. will pass on information about any election expenses,
gathered during their investigation even after the election,
ROLE ASSIGNED TO
INCOME TAX DEPARTMENT
 In
case of complaint/s ie: not related to Income Tax are
received by Dept. The complainant be politely directed to
report it to their respective 24X7- Complaint Room at District
level. If not possible, then such complaints be forwarded to
district control rooms through Nodal Officer. A register be
maintained for recording such details to avoid complications
later.
 In matters related to elections in districts the DEO is incharge and for state the CEO, in case any clarification is
required.
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RETURNS BY POLITICAL PARTIES

Political Parties are required to file their statement of
election expenses with the commission within 75 days
of Assembly election

Political parties are also required to file with the
Commission the list of donations received with names
and address of donors (Under Sec 29C of the RP
Act,1951)

Political Parties are also required to file their Annual
Audited Accounts with the Income Tax Department
(u/s. 139 of Income Tax Act, 1961) on a date as
prescribed in the IT Act,1961.
TRAINING AND DEPLOYMENT

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
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Training of the officials deployed is to be
done before the announcement,
Names are to be sent in advance to the
commission,
Officers deployed not to be given any other
duty during this election process,
Coordination
officers.
meeting
with
all
Nodal
TELEFAX NO. / E-MAIL ID FOR REPORTING
Sh. Avinash Kumar, Under Secretary (EE Div.)
- Tel: 011 23052055 avinash.kr@eci.gov.in .
 Sh. Malay Mallick, Under Secretary (EE Div.)
- Tel: 011 23052058 malay.mallick@eci.gov.in .
 AddressNirvachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New
Delhi-01

Sh. S.K. Rudola, Secretay , Fax: 011- 23052049
 Sh. B. B. Garg, Jt. Director, Fax: 011- 23052003
In case of urgency: Sh. P. K. Dash, DG (Exp.) Tel. 011 23356025, Fax:
011- 23318506, 09868301742
e-mail: prasana.dash@eci.gov.in
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DO’S AND DONT’S: EXPENDITURE OBSERVERS
 Notify
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your correct office and residential addresses and
telephone/fax/mobile numbers by filling the Personal
Information Sheet (PIC) at the time of Registration for the
briefing. Inform also about further changes, if any, in the
addresses.
 Draw your tour programme sufficiently in advance and
intimate to the CEO, DEO and RO of the constituency
allotted to you, accordingly.
 Bring any development that merits immediate remedial
action or attention of the Commission, to the CEO`s/
Commission’s notice without any loss of time.
DO’S AND DONT’S
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your reports to the Secretary/ Jt. Director, Election
Monitoring Division by e-mail and signed copy by post.
 Attend meetings of the Political Parties called by the
DEO/RO.
 Inspect the Expenditure Register of each candidate at least
three times during the campaign period, in such a way that
major expenses are covered.
 Make independent assessment of the expenditure incurred
by the candidate, Political Party or any other person
authorised by the candidate/party.
DO’S AND DONT’S
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periodical inspection of the functioning of all the teams
engaged in expenditure monitoring and bring to the notice of
the DEO, any laxity /irregularity noticed for remedial
corrective steps,
 Keep vigil over all the innovative methods used by
candidates to lure the voters and report to Commission,
 Speak to the local people to arrive at an independent
assessment of expenditure incurred by the candidates,
 To avoid hospitality offer from anybody,
 To be in touch with the DEO regularly and with the CEO and
the Commission if necessary,
DO’S AND DONT’S
 Coordinate
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with the Investigation directorate of the Income
Tax Deptt.,Nodal officers of Police and State Excise Deptt.,
BSF and other enforcement agencies, i.e., DRI, SSB etc.,
for ensuring free flow of information among all agencies.
 Report to the commission, instances of seizure of cash,
liquor etc., and that of alleged ‘paid news’ immediately.
 Do ensure complete neutrality- each step would be watched
and debated.
 Do keep in touch with political parties and candidates on a
regular basis.
DO’S AND DONT’S
 Do
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not call press, give interviews or statements. You are the
eyes and ears of the Commission and not the mouth,
 Do not become the executive officer- get the work done
through the RO or the DEO as against doing it yourself,
 Do not ask for any exemption from the briefing session or
from election duty,
 Do not travel to the constituency with your family,
 Do not go to the State Capital to meet the CEO if the route to
the constituency from your HQs does not pass through the
State Capital,
DO’S AND DONT’S
 Do
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not call for the meetings of the Political Parties on your
own,
 Do not make any unreasonable demands to the
CEO/DEO/RO regarding accommodation, food, vehicles,
security etc.,
 Do not leave your HQ once you have been allotted specific
constituencies without prior permission of the Commission,
 Do not defer submitting reports of any development which
require immediate remedial action till submission of your
regular report(s), but bring it to the Commission’s notice by
fastest means.
THANKS
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