New Delhi, Oct 30: The Election Commission has made it mandatory for the candidates in the fray for the assembly polls in five states to show the accounts of poll expenditure to the observers or returning officers once in three days. The commission would display them on the notice board of the returning office so as to make it public, EC sources said after a meeting of the observers here today.
Addressing the observers, Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh said they should be firm and perform their duties fearlessly as they were working directly under the commission.
Lyngdoh, who recently said the commission was receiving a large number of poll related complaints from Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi going to polls in November and December, said observers should keep their "eyes and ears open" and enforce the model code more strictly.
Besides, the CEC, other two Election Commissioners T S Krishnamurthy and B B Tandon also addressed the observers.
As many as 164 observers would be engaged in Madhya Pradesh, followed by 131 in Rajasthan, 62 in Chhattisgarh, 36 in Delhi and 28 in Mizoram. Bureau Report