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Election Commission not in favour of raising
poll expense limit
Saturday March 02, 2013 09:48:59 PM,
IANS
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Bangalore:
The Election Commission Saturday said it did not favour raising
the expenditure incurred by a candidate in the legislative
assembly elections.
"We are not inclined to review the maximum poll expenditure limit
for assembly constituencies, which was raised to Rs.16 lakh only
two years ago (February 2011) after a gap of six years from Rs.10
lakh in 2005," Chief Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath told
reporters here.
Responding to such a demand by political parties in the run-up to
the ensuing assembly election in Karnataka, due by May, Sampath
said even after the expense limit for individual candidate was
raised in 2011, returns filed by contestants after assembly
elections in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal showed the maximum limit (Rs.
16 lakh) was adequate, as the average expenditure incurred by them
was around Rs.8-10 lakh.
"Basically, it is the central government that decides the maximum
poll expenditure for parliamentary and assembly elections in
consultation with political parties and authorities concerned. We
try to ensure the limit is not crossed by enforcing the rule,"
Sampath said.
The three-member poll panel, including Election Commissioners H.S.
Brahma and Nasim Zaidi has been in the city since Friday to assess
the preparation for the assembly election and ascertain views of
the political parties and top officials concerned.
The union law ministry amended the Conduct of Election Rules in
Feb 2011 through a notification raising the upper spending limit
in a parliamentary constituency to Rs.40 lakh and to Rs.16 lakh
for assembly constituency in big states, including Karnataka from
the previous limit of Rs.25 lakh and Rs.10 lakh, ostensibly to
deal with the use of black money in electioneering.
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