Shiv Sena MLA Suhas Kande on Monday approached the Bombay High Court towards the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) determination declaring his vote solid within the final week’s Rajya Sabha elections as invalid, after the BJP alleged that he violated the voting course of.
Kande, in his petition filed by advocate Ajinkya Udane, mentioned the ECI’s determination discharging his vote has precipitated grave prejudice to his dignity and status, and sought that the HC quash and put aside the ECI’s determination. Udane talked about Kande’s petition earlier than a division bench of Justices S V Gangapurwala and Dhiraj Singh Thakur searching for pressing listening to. The courtroom posted the plea for listening to on June 15.
Kande in his plea claimed that on June 10, when the Rajya Sabha elections have been held for six seats in Maharashtra, he had gone to the electoral corridor (on the Vidhan Bhawan in Mumbai), exercised his proper to vote, made the mandatory endorsement on the poll paper and as per guidelines, got here out and confirmed the poll paper to Shiv Sena chief Sunil Prabhu, who had issued a whip for the polls.
“It is alleged by MLA Yogesh Sagar that the petitioner had shown his ballot paper to the whip of another political party. This is not true and the petitioner had shown his ballot paper to only Sunil Prabhu and not to any other political party,” the petition mentioned.
Sagar should have raised this objection at the moment and never after Kande left the electoral corridor, the petition mentioned. It additional claimed that the election officer in-charge of the ballot station had given his ruling that the allegations made by Sagar weren’t factually right and that Kande’s vote was legitimate.
“However, later in the evening, several leaders of the BJP met with the ECI raising the same grievance. No notice was given to the petitioner (Kande) and without seeking Kande’s response, the ECI thought it fit to interfere with the decision taken by the election officer and held Kande’s vote as invalid,” the petition mentioned.
In the fiercely-contested polls for whole six seats from Maharashtra on Friday, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Pawar misplaced to BJP’s Dhananjay Mahadik- its third nominee. The Shiv Sena and its allies NCP and the Congress received one seat every.The BJP received all of the three seats it had contested.
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