PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 539
It will be very difficult for the officers concerned to make a distinction whether a particular flag has got the Asoka Chakra or the Charkha on it.
Dr. Ambedkar: I think the two are perfectly distinguishable.
*** Dr. C. D. Pande :** ......Dr. Ambedkar said that he found no difficulty in filling the election expense returns because election expenses means expenses incurred for the election, that is, after the nomination. The question was put whether pre-nomination expenses were included there or not. He said it depends, because if you have announced your candidature from that date it will be incumbent upon you to fill it in the returns. I think it will be very very difficult and dangerous to give such wide ranges and to give new definitions for the election expenses and for the nomination expenses—to make that distinction between the two stages, that is, nomination expenses and election expenses.
Dr. Ambedkar: I did not make any such distinction.
Dr. C. D. Pande: You said that election expenses do not mean the expenses incurred before the nomination is valid, that is to say, the expenses up to the date of validation of the nomination should not be included. But so far as the terminology goes it includes all the expenses incurred on the election, whether before or after nomination.
Dr. Ram Subhag Singh (Bihar) : Not before nomination.
Dr. C. D. Pande: Why not ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker : That is the judicial interpretation according to the Hon. Minister.
Dr. C. D. Pande : I myself have experience of filing election returns. There are expenses for instance of getting the voters list has to be included.
Dr. Ambedkar: That is right. But you do not want all the registers. All that is necessary is a certified entry. It will not cost you more than two pence.
*P. D., Vol. 11, Part II, 10th May 1951, pp. 8469-71.