Monday, October 6, 2014

Five candidates issued notices by Returning Officer

CHANDIGARH, OCT 6
Five candidates contesting Assembly Elections from Panchkula have been issued notices by the concerned Returning Officer as discrepancies were found in the daily entries in the expenditure registers presented by  them to the Election Expenditure Observer Mr J. P. Singh appointed by Election Commission of India.
            While stating this today, District Election Officer  said that  in case of INLD  candidate, Mr Kulbhushan Goyal, there were discrepancies in the entries made on September 28 and October 3 showing less number of chairs used.Similarly, Mr Ravinder Rawal, of Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) was also served notice  as details of expenditure were incorrectly entered on September 28 for lunch, tent and flax. These were again incorrect  on October 2 for rent of election office and on October 3 for cards and flax.
            He said that the third such candidate was Gian Chand Gupta of Bharatiya Janata Party  who had made wrong entries on the expenditure register on September 26 regarding vehicles used in road show, water tank, tent and generator, and on September 27 for flags, tent, stage, chairs, tables, sound system. Similarly, there were discrepancies in entries made for October 3.
 He said that Devender Kumar Bansal of Indian National Congress was  also served notice for not presenting the expenditure register before the Election Expenditure Observer on stipulated time and place and for defying the instructions issued by the Election Commission of India. Similarly, Vishavdeepak Sharma of Bahujan Samaj Party was also served a notice for similar reasons, he added.


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