Una, 9 May:- Dr. Kundan Yadav, Expenditure Supervisor appointed by the Election Commission for Hamirpur Parliamentary Constituency for the Lok Sabha General Election 2024 and Meenu Singh Bisht, Expenditure Supervisor appointed for the Assembly by-elections of Gagret and Kutlahar, met the District Administration and Expenditure Monitoring Teams at the DRDA Auditorium in Una on Thursday. Had a meeting with. Let us tell you, Dr. Kundan Yadav is a 2007 batch officer of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) and Meenu Bisht is a 2011 batch IRS officer.
In the meeting, the expenditure observers took information about all the arrangements related to election expenditure monitoring in the district and gave necessary directions to the monitoring teams. He instructed to keep a close eye on the election expenses of the candidates and add it to their election account. He asked the members of Assistant Expenditure Supervisors, Flying Squads, Accounting Teams and Video Observation Teams to understand their responsibilities properly and perform them with full seriousness. He directed to ensure that the guidelines of the Election Commission are followed in letter and spirit.
Fulfill your responsibilities with impartiality, fearlessness and alertness - Dr. Kundan Yadav
Dr. Kundan Yadav said that the Election Commission is paying special attention to ensure that money power and muscle power are not misused in elections. To prevent this, it is necessary that all monitoring teams perform their responsibilities with impartiality, fearlessness and alertness. He warned that any kind of negligence will not be tolerated in this. He asked the flying squads and video observation teams to remain in constant touch with the returning officer. Instructed him to keep a close watch on all political programs and do complete video recording of them. Asked to accurately assess their election expenses and add it to their account.
Gave the mantra of Charaiveti-Charaiveti to the monitoring teams, said..teams should remain in the field continuously
Una frontier district...more vigilance necessary
Dr. Yadav asked the monitoring teams to remain in the field continuously following the mantra of Charaiveti Charaiveti. He said that the teams should not wait for complaints, but should be fully alert about any kind of inducement, distribution of free material, sponsored functions. Maintain constant monitoring. He said that Una is a border district, it shares its borders with Punjab, keep this in mind and work with caution. Keep an eye on the movement of vehicles, do checking and take action by keeping an eye on every person in it, common and special.
Entries should be made correctly in the shadow register - Meenu Singh Bisht
Whereas Expenditure Supervisor Meenu Singh Bisht asked to prepare the shadow register as per the prescribed standards and enter the entries in it correctly. He said that at the time of nomination, the candidates or their authorized agents should be fully informed about the entries in the expenditure register.
Build trust in people through your methodology
Meenu Singh Bisht asked the monitoring teams to remain in the field continuously. Instructed them to monitor marriage halls and other function venues. He said that the flying squad, through its functioning, should create such trust among the common people that they can be assured that immediate action is taken on any information given by them over a phone call.
Expenses on campaigning in religious-social functions will be added to the candidate's account.
Mrs. Bisht said that candidates can normally attend religious and social functions, but if they campaign there, the entire expense of that function will be added to their account. Apart from this, expenses will also be added to the candidate's account for sharing the stage with a star campaigner or for the star campaigner taking the candidate's name from the stage and appealing for votes for him. Monitoring teams should keep these things in mind.
In the meeting, District Election Officer, Deputy Commissioner Jatin Lal gave information about the arrangements made for monitoring election expenditure in the district. He thanked the expenditure supervisors for their guidance and assured to ensure complete compliance of all their guidelines.
Meanwhile, Additional Deputy Commissioner and Nodal Officer of District Expenditure Monitoring Cell, Mahendra Pal Gurjar said that during the election code of conduct period, Una district has the highest number of record seizures of Rs 13.84 crore of cash, illicit liquor, drugs and other precious jewelery etc. in the state. More than Rs 3.14 crore have been seized. He said that work will be done with full vigilance and vigilance in the district also.
Superintendent of Police Rakesh Singh, SDM Una Vishwamohan Dev Chauhan, SDM Haroli Rajiv Thakur, SDM Amb Vivek Mahajan, Tehsildar of Election Department Suman Kapoor, Assistant Expenditure Supervisor, members of flying squads, accounting teams and video observation teams and other officers were present in the meeting.