How Meenakshi Natarajan fell victim to internal sabotage in Congress
In 2025, Meenakshi Natarajan was appointed as the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Telangana incharge.
In 2025, Meenakshi Natarajan was appointed as the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Telangana incharge.
"The Election Commission has heard our case today, and now we are waiting. We are in our fight," Natarajan told reporters in Delhi.
According to the returning officer, Natarajan failed to mention a court case in Form 26 (the affidavit), thereby submitting an incomplete affidavit.
The latest candidate line-up is viewed by political analysts as a calculated move to balance organizational experience with emerging regional equations.
The elections for 24 Rajya Sabha seats spread across 10 states are set to take place on June 18, as announced by the Election Commission.
The latest on the list is Munni Devi, a washerwoman from Patna, who has been named RJD candidate for the Bihar Legislative Council polls to be held on June 20. The main Opposition party RJD can win a maximum of three seats on the basis of its numbers but the party nominated the unprivileged woman for the coveted post.
Interestingly, Union Minority Affairs Minister, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, who is in Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand, is not on this list. His Rajya Sabha term will end in July this year.
The ECI said that voting will be held between 9 am and 4 pm and counting of votes will take place from 5 pm onwards on November 9. The election process will be completed before November 11.
Rajya Sabha polls were held on June 19 in which CPI(M) MLA Poonia voted in favour of the Congress.
Originally the elections were to take place on March 26 for 55 Upper House seats, but 37 candidates have already been elected without a contest and the EC deferred the polls citing the threat of the novel coronavirus.
