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631 to be disqualified for not submitting local bodies poll expenditure

By Our Staff Reporter

VELLORE Feb.21. The State Election Commission is taking steps to disqualify 631 candidates who failed to submit reports on the expenditure incurred by them in the 2001 local bodies poll.

V. Palanichamy, State Election Commissioner, talking to newspersons here on Friday, said that out of 74,631 candidates, only 60,000 had filed their expenditure reports. In Vellore district alone, only 3,799 out of 4,546 candidates had filed their reports. Notices were issued to 747 candidates. Of the nearly 15,000 defaulters throughout the State, show-cause was issued to 11,000 candidates, and steps were being taken to issue notices to the others.

Based on final reports received from five districts, action was being taken to disqualify 631— elected and defeated— who had failed to submit the expenditure details.

While the defeated candidates would be debarred from contesting for another three years, the elected ones would be debarred for three years and action would also be taken to remove them from the posts they were holding.

Mr. Palanichamy said elections to indirect posts (vice-chairmen and vice-presidents of panchayat unions and village panchayats), which fell vacant, would be held on February 27, casual elections to 368 posts, including 27 in Vellore district, would be held in April on a date to be decided later. Earlier speaking at a voter awareness camp organised by the State Election Commission at the Auxilium College here, Mr. Palanichamy said voter awareness was higher in rural areas than the urban areas, as had been borne out by the polling figures for the 2001 local bodies elections. While 73.5 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise in the village panchayat elections, the percentage was 64.2 in town panchayats, 55.4 in municipalities and just 41.07 in municipal corporations.

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