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NEW DELHI: A governmental tempest erupted connected Tuesday aft the information of Congress Rajya Sabha campaigner Meenakshi Natarajan from Madhya Pradesh was rejected, triggering protests by elder enactment leaders and a confrontation extracurricular the Election Commission bureau successful Delhi.Congress leaders, including Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal, Bhupesh Baghel and Sachin Pilot, arrived astatine the Election Commission bureau to protestation the decision. Visuals from the country showed Jairam Ramesh being stopped from entering the premises.
Before heading to the ECI office, Congress wide caput (organisation) KC Venugopal condemned the development, saying, "...Democracy has been killed..."Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh main curate Mohan Yadav hailed the determination and called connected the Congress enactment to "introspect"."As you each know, the Congress campaigner concealed the accusation of transgression background, it should person been declared. But unfortunately, the Congress radical concealed. The determination that was taken, I invited this scrutiny. Now the Congress should introspect, they were successful fear. We invited the decision," helium said.The contention began aft the Returning Officer for the Rajya Sabha predetermination rejected Natarajan's nomination.
According to an authoritative of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, the information was rejected connected the grounds that she had allegedly concealed accusation astir a lawsuit successful her affidavit.The objection was raised by BJP campaigner Mahesh Kewat, who is contesting the 3rd Rajya Sabha seat. His lawyer, Sanket Gupta, alleged that a transgression lawsuit pending against Natarajan successful a Telangana tribunal had not been disclosed successful her information papers, making her affidavit incomplete.
Gupta said the Returning Officer accepted the objection and rejected the nomination, adding that determination were respective different deficiencies successful the paperwork.Venugopal accused the BJP of attempting to "destroy the antiauthoritarian process" and alleged that the ruling enactment resorted to rejecting Natarajan's information aft its efforts to power Congress MLAs had failed. He said the enactment would situation the determination some legally and politically.
