45 candidates file 54 nominations in Haryana

by Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, MARCH 20
 Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Shrikant Walgad said that as many as 45 candidates today filed 54 nominations from Haryana on the fourth day of filing nomination papers for General Elections 2014 scheduled to be held on April 10. So far, a total number of 74 candidates have filed their nomination papers for Parliamentary Constituencies of Haryana.

          Mr. Walgad was interacting with the media persons here today.

He said that filing of nomination papers started on March 15 which would last upto March 22, 2014 in Haryana.

He said that today maximum number of eight nominations has been filed  from Hisar followed by seven each from Sonipat and Gurgaon. Similarly, five nominations each have been filed from Kurukshetra and Faridabad, four nominations each from Karnal and Sirsa, three nominations from Bhiwani-Mahendergarh, two nominations from Ambala and one from Rohtak.

Mr. Walgad said that the Election Commission has also given the contesting candidates the facility of e-filling of Form-26 having the details of their assets and liabilities. He made it clear that this facility would be completely optional and separate guidelines have been issued for this purpose.

          In reply to a question, Mr. Walgad said that a Committee has been constituted to keep a check on the paid news. Apart from taking action on the complaint, this Committee could also take suo moto in this issue. So far, no complaint has been received in this regard. He said that political parties would have to furnish the details of the accounts opened at social media to the district level Media Certification Committee. Apart from this, pre certification is needed by the political parties before publishing any advertisement on social media.

 

          In reply to  another question regarding election expenditure, he said that after filling the nomination by the contesting candidates, they are given a booklet to maintain details of their election expenditure. The Shadow Observation Register of the candidates for Lok Sabha constituency would be maintained at the headquarters. He said that various rallies and meeting organized by the political parties during the elections would be monitored by the Election Department through flying squad and videography team. This team would also keep a vigil on the expenditure by the candidate.

          On being asked to comment on the steps taken to check the sale of illegal liquor during elections, Mr. Walgad said that besides Police, the officers of Excise and Taxation department have been appointed to keep a vigil on the sale of liquor.   

          In reply to a question regarding the incident of attack on Public Health Engineering and Excise & Taxation Minister, Mrs. Kiran Chodhary during election campaign at Narnaul yesterday, he said that a report has been sought from the concerned Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police in this regard. He said that the Director General of Police (DGP) has also been asked to maintain law and order situation in the State.

 

S. No.	Name of PC	Candidate Name	Party affiliation
1	Ambala	(1) Kapur Singh s/o Sh. Mangat Ram	BSP
		(2) Gurnam Singh s/o Mansa Ram	Independent
2	Bhiwani-Mahendragarh	(1) Puranmal Sharma	Independent
		(2) Bhadur Singh	INLD
		(3) Karan Singh s/o Bahadur Singh	INLD covering
3	Faridabad	(1) Deepak Gaur	Aarakshan Virodhi Party
		(2) Hamid Khan s/o Sher Khan	Hindustan Kranti Dal
		(3) Rajinder s/o Harkesh	BSP
		(4) Moharpal s/o Prem singh	Independent
		(5) Khetarpal singh s/o R.P. Nigesh	Independent (SC)
4	Gurgaon	(1) Dharam Pal s/o Prabhati	BSP
		(2) Yogender Yadav	AAP
		(3) Dharampal s/o Maha Ram	INC
		(4) Virender Singh	INC covering
		(5) Abdul Latif	Independent
		(6) Zakir Hussain s/o Taiab	INLD
		(7) Tahir Hussain s/o Zakir Hussain	INLD covering
5	Hisar	(1) Phool singh Sheokand	CPI(M)
		(2) Shusheel Kaushik	Independent
		(3) Kuldeep s/o Madan Lal	Independent
		(4) Vishnu Kumar	Independent
		(5) Kuldeep s/o Sajjan Singh	Independent
		(6) Shusheel Nidhi	Independent
		(7) Rajesh Sharma s/o Dhoop singh	Independent
		(8) Om Parkash s/o Amar Chand	Bharatiya Santmat Party
6	Karnal	(1) Kismat Sharma s/o Ram Kishan	Independent
		(2) Ashish s/o Harish Kumar	Independent
		(3) Mam Chand s/o Shri Chand	CPI
		(4) Mahender Pal s/o Khushi Ram	Independent
7	Kurukshetra	(1) Randhir Singh Sharma	Independent
		(2) Vishnu Bhagwan	Independent
		(3) Raj Kumar Saini	BJP
		(4) Smt. Balwinder Kaur	AAP
		(5) Gurnam Singh	AAP covering
8	Rohtak	(1) Karan Singh s/o Mansa Ram	Independent
9	Sirsa	(1) Ashok Tanwar	INC
		(2) Mange Ram s/o Ghasi Ram	BSP
		(3) Vijender s/o Ghasi Ram	BSP covering
		(4) Jai Pal s/o Shakshi Ram	Independent
10	Sonepat	(1) Padam Singh Dahiya	INLD
		(2) Sant Dharamvir Chhotiwala	Independent
		(3) Shukhbir Singh Ex-MLA	Independent
		(4) Ram Mehar	Independent
		(5) Dalvir Singh Chhail	Rashtravadi Janta Party
		(6) Hari Prakash	SUCI (Communist)
		(7) Surender Pal	Independent