Section 169 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 View Chapter 9

Candidate, electoral right defined.


   For the purposes of this Chapter—

       (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.