Do's and Don'ts for the Guidance of Candidates.
Found in the Handbook for Candidates, Election Commission of India, Appendix-X-A, Chapter 1v, para 17. This can be found at: http://www.eci.gov.in/handbook/candidates/cap10/cap10_1.htm
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HANDBOOK FOR CANDIDATES
APPENDIX-X-A
(CHAPTER IV, PARA 17)
DO’S AND DON'TS FOR GUIDANCE OF CANDIDATES
Do’s
1. Do familiarise yourself
with the constitutional and legal provisions relating to elections.
2. Do check up with the latest Delimitation Order relating to your constituency.
3. Do make it a point to obtain the electoral roll of your constituency and have it
checked up.
4. Do check up your name and the particulars in the current electoral roll well before
deciding to stand for election.
5. Do check up that you are qualified to stand for election.
6. Do check up that you are not disqualified from standing for election.
7. Do check up the nomination form to ensure that it is in the prescribed form (Forms 2-A
or 2-B).
8. Do present the nomination form personally or send it through your proposer.
9. Do check up that the proposer(s) is a voter in the constituency from which you are
seeking election.
10. Do file a certified copy of the electoral roll containing your name, if you are a
candidate from a different constituency.
11. Do collect the receipt for the nomination paper.
12. Do make it a point to attend the scrutiny of nominations personally.
13. Do check up that your name appears in the list of valid nominations, if your
nomination has been accepted.
14. Do check up that your name is correctly entered in the list of validly nominated
candidates.
15. Do check up that your name and other particulars in the list of contesting candidates,
if you have not withdrawn your candidature.
16. Do find out the hours of poll as notified.
17. Do appoint the election agent in proper form and well in time.
18. Do check up that your election agent is not disqualified for voting at elections or
for being a Member of Parliament or any State Legislature.
19. Do get a copy of the list of polling stations and check it up.
20. Do appoint polling agents in proper form for each and every polling station well in
time.
21. Do provide copies of electoral roll to your polling agents.
22. Do appoint counting agents in proper form for each and every counting table and one
extra agent well in time.
23. Do make it a point to attend counting personally.
24. Do report immediately to above authorities or the Returning Officer the instances
which have come to your knowledge about the publication of election pamphlets or posters
in contravention of the above requirements of law.
25. Do attend the meetings of the Constituency Committee constituted by the Returning
Officer for ensuring the observance of Model Code of Conduct for guidance of political
parties and candidates as devised by the Election Commission.
26. Do report the instances of violation of the above said Model Code of Conduct that have
come to your notice for necessary remedial or punitive action.
27. Do maintain proper accounts about election expenses from the date of your nomination
as a candidate to the date of election in the Register specifically provided to you by the
Returning officer for the purpose.
28. Do attend with your agents the training rehearsals arranged by the Returning Officer.
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