Taking a major action, the Election Commission of India has removed 86 Registered Unrecognized Political Parties from its list. Along with this, 253 more registered unrecognized parties have also been put in the inactive list. It has been said on behalf of the commission that these parties have neither contested any assembly and parliament elections since 2014 nor have they responded to any of the 16 notices sent by the commission.
The commission has also prohibited these parties from giving any benefit of any kind under the Election Symbols Order, 1968. All the parties on which action has been taken are from Bihar, Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh.
Earlier also in the month of May and June this year, the Election Commission had removed a total of 198 registered unrecognized parties from the list. Thus the total number of political parties removed from the list has become 198+86= 284.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Anoop Chandra Pandey are taking continuous action against fake political parties, in which this big action has been taken on so many parties on Tuesday.
According to the Election Commission, action was taken against 253 parties on the basis of the reports of Chief Electoral Officers of seven states. These parties have been put in the list of inactive parties. According to Section 19-A of the RP Act, 1951, political parties are required to inform the Commission about changes in their names, addresses, head office, office bearers and PAN without delay, but when no response has been received from these parties. Physical verification was done and these teams were found not present at the mentioned address.
The Commission has said that if any political party is aggrieved by this order of the Commission, then it can give its reply to the Election Commission or the Election Office within 30 days. Recently, the Election Commission had written a letter to the Revenue Department for action against more than 2100 registered unrecognized parties. On the request of the commission, the Income Tax Department conducted raids across the country and recovered assets and cash worth more than Rs 4000 crore of fake political parties.
The party has to contest elections within five years of its registration by the Election Commission and thereafter. If the party does not contest elections for six consecutive years, the party will be removed from the list of registered parties. Therefore, the Commission, in the discharge of its mandate of ensuring a just, free, fair and transparent electoral process, hereby directs that the 86 non-existent RUPPs shall be removed from the list of the RUPP’s register and shall not hold itself liable for the same.
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