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EC Sounds<br />
Poll Bugle<br />
Commission has issued<br />
instructions if any column in<br />
the affidavit is left blank, the<br />
Returning Officer will issue<br />
a notice to the candidate to<br />
submit a fresh affidavit, duly<br />
filling up all columns.<br />
Poll bugle is sounded and battle lines are drawn. Election Commission<br />
of India while announcing the schedule for Lok Sabha elections said<br />
it has decided to use Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trial (VVPAT)<br />
system in the General Election to the House of the People, 2014,<br />
in some of the constituencies, subject to availability of number of units.<br />
Presently, commission has 600 units of VVPAT and another 20,000 units<br />
have been ordered and are likely to be received by March 31, 2014.<br />
Similarly, EC taking a note of Supreme Court Judgment of September<br />
13, 2013, made it obligatory for the Returning Officer “to check whether<br />
the information required is fully furnished at the time of filing of affidavit<br />
with the nomination paper.” Commission has issued instructions if any<br />
column in the affidavit is left blank, the Returning Officer will issue a notice<br />
to the candidate to submit a fresh affidavit, duly filling up all columns.<br />
After such notice, if the candidate fails to file the affidavit, complete in<br />
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