Jaipur, Feb 23: The Election Commission will come out with clearer directions before the Lok Sabha polls to resolve the issue of overlapping expenses of political parties and candidates, chief Election Commissioner T S Krishanmurthy said today. Inaugurating a four-day training programme of electoral officers from 12 states here, he said one frequent complaint before the commission was regarding candidates who showed their own poll expense on party account. ''We will give clearer directions to resolve this problem,'' he said. Asking the officials to go strictly by the Election Commission handbook on the conduct of the election process, he said efforts should be made to ensure that the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls was ''a landmark...A milestone'' in the country's democratic process. ''Maybe 100 per cent perfection is not possible, but 99 per cent perfection can be achieved,'' he said, calling for rigorous steps to finalise the electoral rolls, implement the model code of conduct and oversee the conduct of election staff.
Bureau Report