AHMEDABAD: Gujarat excessive court docket has issued summons to Bharatiya Janata Get together MP from the Surat Lok Sabha constituency, Mukesh Dalal, over two petitions difficult his uncontested victory.
The court docket of Justice JC Doshi issued summons to Dalal, directing him to reply by Aug 9, after the matter got here up for listening to on July 25, the lawyer for petitioners PS Champaneri stated on Sunday.
Dalal was declared the winner on April 22, the final date for withdrawal of nomination, after Congress decide Nilesh Kumbhani‘s nomination was rejected and different candidates withdrew from the race.
The remaining 25 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat went to polls on Might 7 within the third section of normal elections. Together with Surat, BJP received 25 seats within the state, with Congress bagging one.
The petitioners have challenged the legality and validity of the choice of the Surat collector and returning officer to reject Kumbhani’s nomination. The 2 petitions, filed by 4 voters from the Surat parliamentary constituency who’re additionally Congress members, query the choice of the returning officer to reject Kumbhani’s kind underneath the provisions of Part 36 of the Illustration of the Folks Act, regarding scrutiny of the nomination varieties.
The petitioners have claimed that Kumbhani’s three proposers who later denied having signed his nomination papers had declared in an software earlier than the deputy collector that they might be signing as proposers on his nomination kind.
That they had accomplished so whereas making use of for the certificates declaring them voters of the identical constituency, a pre-condition for proposers.
Moreover, the verification of signatures will not be a collector’s job, they contended, stressing that the Congress, being a nationwide get together, would not have any scarcity of proposers for its candidates in a given constituency. Dalal turned the primary candidate within the final 12 years to win a Lok Sabha contest unopposed.
The court docket of Justice JC Doshi issued summons to Dalal, directing him to reply by Aug 9, after the matter got here up for listening to on July 25, the lawyer for petitioners PS Champaneri stated on Sunday.
Dalal was declared the winner on April 22, the final date for withdrawal of nomination, after Congress decide Nilesh Kumbhani‘s nomination was rejected and different candidates withdrew from the race.
The remaining 25 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat went to polls on Might 7 within the third section of normal elections. Together with Surat, BJP received 25 seats within the state, with Congress bagging one.
The petitioners have challenged the legality and validity of the choice of the Surat collector and returning officer to reject Kumbhani’s nomination. The 2 petitions, filed by 4 voters from the Surat parliamentary constituency who’re additionally Congress members, query the choice of the returning officer to reject Kumbhani’s kind underneath the provisions of Part 36 of the Illustration of the Folks Act, regarding scrutiny of the nomination varieties.
The petitioners have claimed that Kumbhani’s three proposers who later denied having signed his nomination papers had declared in an software earlier than the deputy collector that they might be signing as proposers on his nomination kind.
That they had accomplished so whereas making use of for the certificates declaring them voters of the identical constituency, a pre-condition for proposers.
Moreover, the verification of signatures will not be a collector’s job, they contended, stressing that the Congress, being a nationwide get together, would not have any scarcity of proposers for its candidates in a given constituency. Dalal turned the primary candidate within the final 12 years to win a Lok Sabha contest unopposed.
