EC disqualifies former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda for three years

The Election Commission disqualified former Jharkhand CM Madhu Koda from contesting elections for three years for failing to file election expenses.  

Koda was charged for furnishing false election expenditure records after the 2009 Jharkhand Assembly polls. He was elected as an Independent MP from West Singhbum constituency in Jharkhand in 2009. Koda had made an alleged expenditure of about Rs. 10 crore during his election campaign against Rs. 25 lakh as stipulated under the EC guidelines for parliamentary polls that time. Koda was Jharkhand CM from 2006 to 2008 and was only the third independent legislator in independent India to be CM of a state.