BNS Section 169-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.

[Old Corresponding Section: Section 171A of the Indian Penal Code, 1860]