Section 171A: “Candidate”, “Electoral right” defined

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1. 1. Under Section 169(b) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, 'electoral right' means the right of a person:

   A.to stand as a candidate and to vote, but only at elections to Parliament or a State LegislatureB.to stand, or not to stand as, or withdraw from being, a candidate, or to vote or refrain from votingC.to be registered in the electoral roll of a constituency and to have his name retained in that rollD.to vote at an election, but not the right to refrain from voting or to withdraw from being a candidate
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