By IANS,
New Delhi : The Election Commission has served show-cause notices to 15 political parties, including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for failing to furnish information regarding expenditure incurred during the 2009 Lok Sabha election, the poll panel said Friday.
The notices were issued April 16 and a reply has been sought by April 29, a statement from the Election Commission said. The notices were issued under 16A of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order of 1968.
“If no reply is received by the said date, it will be presumed the party has nothing to say in the matter and the commission will take appropriate action against the party … without any further reference to the party,” he said.
Besides the BJP, the others who have got the notices are Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), All India Forward Bloc, Arunachal Congress, Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party, Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S), Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), Manipur People’s Party, Mizo National Front (MNF), Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), Pudhucherry Munnetra Congress, Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), United Democratic Party (UDP), National People’s Party and Zoram Nationalist Party.
In Bangalore, a JD-S leader said the party had not received any show cause notice. But in Ranchi, JMM central committee member Vinod Pande told IANS that his party had received the notice and would reply to it.