Definition.

In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "agent" means any person appointed in writing by a candidate at an election to be his agent for the purposes of his election with the written consent of such person; (b) "candidate" means a person who has been or claims to have been duly nominated as a candidate at an election, and any such person shall be deemed to have been a candidate as from the time when, with the election in prospect, he began to hold himself out as a prospective candidate; (c) "corrupt practice" means any of the practices specified in section 13-U; (d) "costs" means all costs, charges and expenses of, or incidental to, a trial of an election petition; (e) "election" means an election to fill the office of a Sarpanch or Panch; (f) "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; (g) "pleader" means any person entitled to appear and plead for another in a Civil Court and includes an Advocate.