Section 234: Monitoring of election campaign

234. Monitoring of election campaign.—(1) The Commission shall constitute a monitoring team consisting of such number of persons as may be determined by it, to monitor election campaign of the candidates and political parties and report, on regular basis in the prescribed manner, to an officer nominated by the Commission in respect of each district for the purpose of deciding the complaints regarding any violation by a candidate or a political party of any provision of the Act, Rules or the Code of Conduct issued by the Commission. (2) The Commission shall constitute a monitoring team for a constituency or a group of constituencies and determine the terms of reference of the monitoring team. (3) If the officer, nominated under sub-section (1) receives a report of any violation of the Act or the Rules and, after holding a summary enquiry, finds that the reported violation has been committed and no other punishment is provided under the Act for such violation, he may impose a fine not exceeding fifty thousand rupees. (4) If the nominated officer after summary enquiry finds a candidate or a political party guilty of violation of the Act or the Rules for the second time, he shall refer the matter to the Commission for initiation of proceedings against such candidate or political party under the law, including proceedings for disqualification of the said candidate and in case of the political party, its candidate. (5) Any person aggrieved from an order of nominated officer under this section may, within three days from the order, file an appeal before the Commission and the order of the Commission on the appeal shall be final. (6) In an election, the Commission may issue any direction to the authority dealing with matters relating to print or electronic media and such authority shall comply with the direction.

Effective date: 2017-10-02

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