The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought response from Prajwal Revanna, the grandson of former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, on a plea challenging his election in 2019 from from Hassan Lok Sabha constituency as a joint candidate of JDS and Congress.<\/p>\n
A bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and Hrishiksh Roy issued notice to the returned candidate from the high-profile constituency on an appeal challenging the Karnataka High Court’s order by which an election petition against his win was dismissed.<\/p>\n
In the proceedings held through video-conferencing, the top court issued the notice and tagged the appeal filed by one G Devarajegowda for hearing with other similar pending plea filed by the BJP candidate on the issue.<\/p>\n
Devarajegowda, in the plea, said that his election petition was dismissed by the High Court on “procedural irregularities”.<\/p>\n
The plea said that Prajwal had resorted to unfair and corrupt practices and his election should be set aside.<\/p>\n
It said the High Court did not consider the fact that by dismissing the election petition, it was running a risk of having a representative in Parliament who has not got the maximum number of valid votes.<\/p>\n
The petitioner, an advocate by profession, sought a declaration of rival BJP candidate, A Manju as the winner for having secured the maximum number of valid votes.<\/p>\n
A separate appeal was earlier filed by Manju against the HC order and the top court had already issued notice to the retuned candidate on that.<\/p>\n
Manju had challenged the 2019 election of Prajwal on the ground that there was allegedly non-disclosure of assets held by him in his election affidavit.<\/p>\n
Prajwal was declared as the winner with 6,76,606 votes. Manju came as a first runner up with 5,35,282 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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