‘Fighting our battle…’: Congress’ Meenakshi Natarajan hopeful of ECI relief after rejection of her RS nomination
"The Election Commission has heard our case today, and now we are waiting. We are in our fight," Natarajan told reporters in Delhi.
"The Election Commission has heard our case today, and now we are waiting. We are in our fight," Natarajan told reporters in Delhi.
After meeting Election Commission officials, Meenakshi Natarajan said the Congress would continue its challenge through constitutional channels while seeking reversal of her rejected Rajya Sabha nomination.
With Rajya Sabha polling days away, the Congress has mounted a legal and political challenge against the rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan's nomination papers in Madhya Pradesh.
The Youth Congress workers gathered outside the MP Congress Headquarters and raised slogans against the BJP alleging high-handed behaviour and undue pressure by the ruling party in the decision by the Returning Officer to cancel Natarajan’s nomination.
According to the returning officer, Natarajan failed to mention a court case in Form 26 (the affidavit), thereby submitting an incomplete affidavit.
Shah asserted that the BJP would implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in Assam if re-elected.
Congress President and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday urged the government to convene an all-party meeting to deliberate on the Women’s Reservation Bill, stressing the need for consensus and cautioning against politicising the issue.
Widespread unrest over candidate selection erupted into violence at Bidhan Bhavan on Wednesday, as factional infighting within the Congress took a serious turn ahead of the Assembly elections.
After nearly three decades, the Indian National Congress has fielded candidates in all nine Assembly seats in the Asansol-Durgapur region of West Burdwan district.
Even as the deadline for filing nominations for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections draws to a close on Monday, with only a three-day window remaining, both the Congress and the BJP, part of the DMK and the AIADMK-led NDA fronts, respectively, are dragging their feet in releasing their candidate lists.
