{"id":33951,"date":"2014-07-01T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T04:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=33951"},"modified":"2014-07-01T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T04:57:39","slug":"election-tharoor-3-others-challenged-kerala-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/election-tharoor-3-others-challenged-kerala-hc","title":{"rendered":"Election of Tharoor, 3 others challenged in Kerala HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/election-tharoor-3-others-challenged-kerala-hc\/sashi-tharoor\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33952\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"33952\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/election-tharoor-3-others-challenged-kerala-hc\/sashi-tharoor\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/sashi-tharoor.jpg?fit=248%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"248,186\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sashi tharoor\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/sashi-tharoor.jpg?fit=248%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33952 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/sashi-tharoor.jpg?resize=248%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sashi tharoor\" width=\"248\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/sashi-tharoor.jpg?w=248&amp;ssl=1 248w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/07\/sashi-tharoor.jpg?resize=150%2C112&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>Petitions challenging the election of former union minister Sashi Tharoor and three others in recent Lok Sabha polls were filed today in the Kerala High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Jose K Mani of Kerala Congress (Mani-Kottayam), Anto Antony (Congress-Pathnamthitta) and P Karunakaran (CPIM-Kasaragod) are the others against whom the election petitions were filed.<\/p>\n<p>In his petition challenging Tharoor&#8217;s election from Thiruvananthapuram, Aliyas John, Vizhinjam Motherport Action Committee President, contended the former minister had &#8220;wrongfully&#8221; claimed to have completed development project for Rs.2,500 crore in the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed he possessed RTI documents to prove that the project worth Rs.1,170 crore out of the Rs 2,500 crore had not been undertaken by Tharoor.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Noble Mathew of BJP sought to set aside the election of Mani, whose party is a partner of ruling UDF, alleging he had indulged in corrupt practices.<\/p>\n<p>According to the petitioner, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, during a poll convention of Mani, announced the dropping of the speed rail project on Kaduthurthy-Ettumanoor route, which has run into opposition from a section of people, and this amounted to violation of model code of conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration was made following the decision of a movement, spearheading the protest against the project, to announce a boycott of the elections, the petitioner stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to the petitioner, the statement made by the Chief Minister amounted to &#8216;bribery defined under Section 123(1) of the Representation of the People Act&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Two petitions were filed against Antony by Manoj, CPI(M) District Committee member, and one Udaybhanu alleging that he had not disclosed his entire assets in the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Defeated Congress candidate T Siddique moved the court against the election of Karunakaran from Kasaragod.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petitions challenging the election of former union minister Sashi Tharoor and three others in recent Lok Sabha polls were filed today in the Kerala High Court. Jose K Mani of Kerala Congress (Mani-Kottayam), Anto Antony (Congress-Pathnamthitta) and P Karunakaran (CPIM-Kasaragod) are the others against whom the election petitions were filed. In his petition challenging Tharoor&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":33952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-law-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Election of Tharoor, 3 others challenged in Kerala HC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Election of Tharoor, 3 others challenged in Kerala HC\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/election-tharoor-3-others-challenged-kerala-hc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Election of Tharoor, 3 others challenged in Kerala HC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Election of Tharoor, 3 others challenged in Kerala HC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/election-tharoor-3-others-challenged-kerala-hc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Legal News India - 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