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.

Section 168 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 

Section 170 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita