Ahmedabad Times

NEW DELHI: A day after Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination for the Rajya Sabha was rejected, the Congress is ready to file a petition on the Election Fee’s portal on Wednesday.Within the occasion of no response from the ballot panel, the celebration is making ready to maneuver the Supreme Court docket difficult the choice, information company ANI reported, citing sources.“The Congress is making ready to file a petition on the portal by 10:30 PM tonight, within the occasion that no response is acquired from the Central Election Fee,” sources advised ANI.“Preparations are underway to say the matter earlier than the Supreme Court docket tomorrow morning,” they added.Earlier within the day, a delegation of senior Congress leaders, together with KC Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, Deepa Dasmunshi, Vivek Tankha and Abhishek Singhvi, met Election Fee officers in New Delhi and argued that Natarajan’s nomination had been wrongly rejected.They urged the ballot panel to right away reverse the rejection of its Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination from Madhya Pradesh, calling the choice ‘egregious’ and ‘blatantly illegal’.“The order rejecting Natarajan’s nomination is egregious, blatantly illegal and have to be put aside instantly,” the Congress advised the ballot physique.Earlier on Tuesday, Natarajan’s nomination was rejected by the Returning Officer within the Madhya Pradesh Meeting on allegations that she didn’t disclose particulars of a case in Telangana in her election affidavit.BJP leaders objected, alleging that info referring to a pending matter had been hid.Following the assembly with the Election Fee, Congress chief Meenakshi Natarajan stated the celebration had religion in constitutional establishments and would proceed to pursue the matter via authorized and democratic channels.“The Election Fee has heard us. We’re combating this battle as a result of we nonetheless place confidence in constitutional establishments,” Natarajan advised reporters.The rejection of Natarajan’s nomination has turned the tables for the Congress in Madhya Pradesh.The BJP, which holds 164 seats within the 230-member Meeting, was already assured of profitable two of the three Rajya Sabha seats. The Congress, with 64 MLAs, had ample numbers to elect Natarajan to the third seat.Along with her nomination rejected, the BJP’s third candidate, Mahesh Kewat, is now in a a lot stronger place, elevating the likelihood that the celebration may win all three Rajya Sabha seats until the Congress secures reduction from the Election Fee or the courts.Congress leaders have accused the BJP of engineering a ‘constitutional conspiracy’ to seize the third seat regardless of missing the numbers for an easy victory, whereas the BJP insists that election officers merely adopted authorized necessities relating to the disclosure of pending instances.