The election commission has sent a show-cause notice to senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde asking why he should not be disqualified for failing to maintain and file a true account of his expenditure for the 2009 Lok Sabha election campaign.
The notice, served under Section 10A of the Representation of People’s Act, 1951, asked Munde to reply within 20 days, failing which he would face disqualification and would be barred from contesting an election to either houses of Parliament or to the legislative assembly/council for three years from the date of the disqualification order.
The EC’s decision to issue a notice came after it scanned the CD of his controversial speech in Mumbai on June 27, and verified his public admission that he spent Rs 8 crore on his last parliamentary poll campaign.
This, when he had shown an expenditure of just Rs 19,36,992 as his election expenses. “Whereas, it is evident... that, as per your own admission in public, you in fact spent Rs 8 crore... and thus did not maintain a true account of your election expenses as required under Section 77 of the RPA and therefore the account lodged by you under Section 78 of the RPA is not in the manner required by the law,” the EC said in its show-cause notice.
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