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IPC Section 171A - "Candidate", "Electoral right" defined
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IPC Section 171A deals with "candidate", "electoral right" defined.
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171A. "Candidate", "Electoral right" defined. For the purposes of this Chapter--
2[(a) "candidate" means a person who has been nominated as a candidate at any election;]
(b) "electoral right" means the right of a person to stand, or not to stand as, or to withdraw from
being, a candidate or to vote or refrain from voting at an election.
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