Kathmandu,
Sept 21: The Election Commission is doing homework to fix the election
expenditure limit for the candidates and parties for the November 20 election
of the House of Representatives and Province Assembly as per the Election
related law and code of conduct.
The EC held a consultation
with political parties today in this regard. Chief Election Commissioner Dinesh
Kumar Thapaliya said that decision would be taken after holding discussions on
the suggestions received from the political parties. The political parties
suggested increasing the expenditure limit fixed for the HoR and Province
Assembly election held in 2074 BS and that the expenditure limit for different
constituencies should not be same.
Chief Election
Commissioner Thapaliya expressed the belief that political parties and
candidates would follow expenditure ceiling fixed by the EC and as per the code
of conduct.
Clause 24 of the
Election Commission Act-2073 has the provision that the EC could determine the
election expenditure limit.
Similarly,
clause 25 of the same Act mentions that it is the responsibility of the
political parties and candidates to submit the election expenditure details and
they have to submit the expenditure details within 30 days at the respective
election office after the announcement of the final result of the
election.
The EC has taken
action against 123,624 candidates of a local-level election held on May 13 and
charged up to Rs 750,000 as a fine for not submitting their expenditure
details. (RSS)