By IANS,
New Delhi: The Election Commission Tuesday termed as “baseless” media reports suggesting that the poll panel is monitoring the funds being raised by Team Anna in its present campaign.
“As regards the raising of funds by the team of Shri Anna Hazare, the Commission denies that it is monitoring any such fund raising. The reports to that effect are entirely baseless,” the commission said in statement Tuesday.
“The commission would only like to reiterate its clarification already given that if any organisation or an individual campaigns in favour of any particular political party or candidate, the expenditure incurred on any such campaign would be liable to be booked in the expenditure account of that party or candidate(s) concerned,” the statement said.
Earlier Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi had said that if Team Anna campaigns for any candidate in the upcoming assembly elections, the entire cost of his campaign would be added to that candidate’s expenditure.