NEW DELHI: The Himachal Pradesh excessive courtroom on Wednesday issued a discover to Kangana Ranaut, the BJP Lok Sabha member from Mandi, in response to a petition filed by a Kinnaur resident looking for to put aside her .
The petitioner, Layak Ram Negi, alleges that his nomination papers had been wrongly rejected, affecting the election’s consequence. Justice Jyotsna Rewal has directed Ranaut to file a reply by August 21.
Ranaut secured the Mandi Lok Sabha seat with 5,37,002 votes, defeating her rival Congress candidate Vikramaditya Singh, who garnered 4,62,267 votes, by a margin of 74,755 votes.
Layak Ram Negi, an ex-forest division worker, claims his nomination papers had been improperly dismissed by the returning officer, who’s the Deputy Commissioner of Mandi. In line with Negi, he had taken untimely retirement and supplied a “no dues certificates” from his division alongside together with his nomination papers.
Negi said, “Nevertheless, he was given a day to supply the ‘no due certificates’ from the electrical energy, water, and phone departments and when he submitted them, the returning officer didn’t settle for them and rejected the nomination papers.”
The petitioner argues that his participation within the election might have resulted in a unique consequence had his papers been accepted. He asks that the election of Ranaut be annulled. Negi additionally made the returning officer a celebration to his petition.
Justice Jyotsna Rewal has directed Kangana Ranaut to file a reply by August 21, acknowledging the petition’s claims and making certain that the courtroom proceedings tackle all associated grievances.
