Candidates’ Criminal Record, Assets in a Single form

The details of a candidate contesting — his criminal record and assets/liabilities — in one consolidated format.

Note -Till now, these details were in scattered in two separate affidavits.

Election Commission of India(ECI)said that following modification of the format of the affidavit filed in Form 26 appended to the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961, which came into effect from August 1, 2012, candidates are now required to file only one affidavit (in revised Form 26) with the nomination paper.

Information on both these aspects will be part of a single document and will be up on the Election Commission website within 24 hours of it being filed.They will not be removed even if any candidate withdraws his/her candidature.

Candidates are required to file 6 Documents -

• Affidavit
• Certified Extract of Electoral roll (when candidate is an elector of a different constituency)
• Forms A and B (applicable in the case of candidates set up by political parties)
• Copy of Caste Certificate (if the candidate claims to belong to SC/ST)
• Security Deposit (whether made) and 
• Oath/affirmation (whether taken)

If the candidates have not filed the affidavit and Forms A and B at the time of filing nomination, he or she should have to file it latest by 3 p.m. on the last date of filing nominations

Two Constituencies

A person is not allowed to be nominated as a candidate from more than two Assembly Constituencies in the State as per Section 33 (7) (b) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951