Election Commission deploys 200 expenditure observers in the five poll-bound States

Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat expressed concern over the use of partially or fully owned newspapers and channels by the candidate or their sponsoring parties for electioneering. Instructions have been issued to ensure that the expenditure on the same is to be included in the account of the candidate as per notified rate cards.

On the mechanism of election expenditure monitoring, the expenditure observers were also briefed by Deputy Election Commissioners, Umesh Sinha, Vijay Dev, Director-Generals Dilip Sharma, Sudeep Jain, and Directors Dhirendra Ojha and Vikram Batra.

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