In a setback to the BJP-NDA front ahead of the April 6 assembly polls, the Kerala High Court on Monday dismissed pleas of its three candidates challenging the rejection of their nomination papers by returning officers.<\/p>\n
Justice N Nagaresh accepted the contention of the Election Commission that the court cannot interfere once the notification for the polls has been issued.<\/p>\n
BJP’s N Haridas and Nivedida Subramanian and its ally AIADMK’s candidate, R M Dhanalakshmi had approached the court which met at a special sitting on Sunday to hear their pleas after their nominations were rejected during scrutiny on the ground that their papers were incomplete.<\/p>\n
While Haridas and Nivedita had filed their nominations from Thalassery (Kannur) and Guruvayur (Thrissur) constituencies respectively, Dhanalakshmi was proposing to contest from Devikulam in Idukki district.<\/p>\n
The petitions had been posted to 12 pm on Monday after the court directed the Electioncommission to file its counter affidavit.<\/p>\n
Opposing the pleas, the EC cited the Constitutional provisions contending that since the election process had set in, the court’s intervention was not warranted.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the development, M V Jayarajan, CPI(M) Kannur district secretary, said “Vote trading between BJP and Congress will backfire”.<\/p>\n
The matter had snowballed into a controversy since March 20 when the returning officers of the three constituencies rejected the nominations as it did not contain signatures of their party state presidents in requisite forms.<\/p>\n
The CPI(M) had alleged that with the rejection of nominations of the NDA candidates in three constituencies, it will create a situation of trading of BJP votes in favour of the Congress-led UDF in these segments.<\/p>\n
Source : PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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