ELECTORAL REFORM BILL 2015

A BILL
For the amendment of
The Conduction of Election Rules 1961, part 2 (general
provisions)
And,
Representation of Peoples Act, 1951
And,
Indian Penal Code, section 171
Be it enacted in the Parliament in the Sixty-sixth Year of
the Republic of India as follows:

CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1.(i) this bill shall be called the Electoral reform bill,2015
(ii) it shall be deemed to have come into force on the 13 th
February2015.

CHAPTER II
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONDUCTION OF ELECTION
RULES ,1961
2.In the conduction of electoral rule, section 2 needs to
be amended as follows:

2(4A). Form of affidavit to be filed at the time of

delivering nomination paper.The candidate or his
proposer, as the case may be, shall, at the time of
delivering to the returning officer the nomination paper
under subsection (1) of section 33 of the R.P Act,1951
also deliver to him a single affidavit that includes:

Annual income and its sources

Assets and liabilities
Educational qualification
Charges framed against him/her under the Indian
Penal Code; if any
Information about pending cases: civil, criminal; if
any
sworn by the candidate before a Magistrate of the first
class or a Notary in Form 26.
3. the following clause shall be inserted in the Conduction
of election rules:
Election Commission of India will conduct an inquiry of
the affidavit, and the candidate will be issued with an
approval letter if there is No
3.1Concealing of any facts
3.2Wrong information
4. if any candidate is found with above mentioned
discrepancies shall be disqualified from contesting the
election and shall be punished as under : section 171-G
(proposed amendment )

6. The following clause shall be inserted in The R.P ACT,

1951
Anyone against whom charges have been framed by
any court in India under IPC section: 307, 310,302, 304,
384, 364, 124, 395, 471, 332, 333, 353, 375, 376 prior
to 10 months of the election loses his/her right to
contest the election.
7. The section 70 of the R.P ACT, 1951 shall be
removed.
8. The ruling party will not be eable to launch or
exercise any scheme for a period of 18 months prior to
election that in any form involves distribution of money
; (freebies)
9. The ECI will provide the option of online voting to
the voters not present in their respective constituency .

CHAPTER III
AMENDMENT TO THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION
ACT, 2005
The following clause shall be inserted under the rti act
2005
1. political parties (since they effect the democracy
thus the future of the people of India) are
answerable to the questions under RTI act .
2. political parties must setup an appellate mechanism
to answer the questions related to there sources and

amount of funding as well as details of election

expenditures .
CHAPTER IV
AMMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
ARTICLE 324
The clause 2 shall be amended as follows
Election Commission shall consist of the Chief Election
Commissioner and such number of other Election
Commissioners, if any, as the President may from time to time fix
and the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and
other Election Commissioners shall be appointed by the
president of india based on the recommendation of a collegium
consisting of the prime minister , law and justice minister ,
leaders of opposition in lok sabha and rajya sabha , chief justice ,
and out going Chief Election Commissioner.
CHAPTER V
AMENDMENT IN
The following clause shall be inserted in the Indian Penal
Code as follows:
1. a)Anyone who is contesting elections and
against whom charges are framed within ten
months prior to the election, under Indian Penal
Code sections 307, 310,302, 304, 384, 364, 124,
395, 471, 332, 333, 353, 375, 376;her/his case
will be forwarded to the Fast track court.
b) Anyone who is contesting elections and
against whom charges are framed under Indian

Penal Code 171 ; her/his case will be forwarded

to the Fast track court and if convicted shall be
dismissed with immediate effect .
2. Section 171G shall be amended as follows:
whoever with intens to affect the result of a
election makes or publishes any statement
purporting to be a statement of facts which is
false and which he/she either knows or believes
to be false or doesnt believe to be true, in
relation to the personal character or conduct of
any candidate shall be punished with fine :
the amount of the penalty shall be Rs.
50,000 ;
imprisonment for 2 months in
case of failure of payment.
3. Section 171H of the Indian Penal Code shall be
amended as follows:
a. Whoever without the general or special
authority in writing of the candidate, incurs
or authorizes expenses on account of the
holding of any public meeting or upon any
advertisement, circular, or publication or in
any otherway whatsoever for the purpose of
promoting or procuring the election of such
candidate, shall be punished with a fine,
which may extend to Rs.25,000.
4. Section 171 I of indian penal code shall be
amended as follows whoever being required by
any law for the time being in failure to keep
election account or having the force of law to
keep accounts of expemses incurred at or in

connection with an election fails to keep such a

count shall be punished with fine which may
extend to Rs2,00,000.
CHAPTER VI
AMENDEMENT OT THE REPRESENTATION OF
PEOPLES ACT 1951
1.The following clause shall be inserted
( previously 49-O ) if NOTA ( already included in
EVM; ECI guideline amendments) Is counted as
majority, bi-election for the constituency shall be
held after 6 months, in which the previous
candidates shall be disqualified for the election.