Election observers to visit state from March 14

KOLKATA: Come 2014 polls, awareness observers will be introduced to improve people's participation in the electoral process. These new set of observers will oversee management of the electoral process at the field level and gauge how voter awareness ...

Just months ahead of the Lok Sabha polls the Election Commission has decided to increase the electoral expenditure from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 40 lakh per candidate. At a briefing on Thursday, Joint Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal Saibal Burman also said ...

R Dutta Choudhury GUWAHATI, March 10 Though Assam has only 14 Lok Sabha seats, the cost of holding Parliamentary elections in the State is much higher than in other States having much larger numbers of seats as the State Government tried to create ...

The Chief Electoral Office of Delhi has submitted its report to the Election Commission of India on the issue of over-expenditure involving former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during Assembly election campaigning in December last year. According ...

The Election Commission of India (ECI) raised the expenditure limit for each contesting candidate from `32 lakh to `54 lakh in the Puducherry parliamentary seat. Chief Electoral Officer T Sreekanth said on Friday, the expenditure limit for ...

ALLAHABAD: District election authorities on Friday claimed to have constituted teams to keep an eye on activities of political parties and their election expenses. A total of 12 assistant expenditure observers have been appointed (one each for every ...

Each candidate will be required to open a separate bank account for election purposes and pay all expenses from the said account IANS | New Delhi March 5, 2014 Last Updated at 19:30 IST The expenditure of each candidate in the Lok Sabha polls will ...

The Chief Electoral Officer of the Union Territory of Puducherry T. Sreekanth on Monday said the Election Commission had identified 7 States and Union Territories, including Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, as expenditure-sensitive areas for the Lok Sabha ...

Five Lok Sabha constituencies have been declared as "expenditure sensitive" in Punjab for the forthcoming general elections , chief electoral officer said here on Wednesday. "Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Bathinda, Ferozepur and Patiala have been ...