CHANDIGARH: Senior Congress chief Ajay Maken on Monday moved the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket, difficult BJP-JJP backed Unbiased candidate Kartikeya Sharma’s win in final month’s Rajya Sabha polls.
Talking to reporters exterior the excessive court docket complicated, the Congress chief stated a vote forged in favour of Sharma ought to have been rejected because it was not marked within the column the place the choice was purported to be marked.
Because the vote was counted as legitimate, it had a bearing on the ballot consequence, and subsequently, Maken stated, he needed to file the petition.
Replying to a query, Maken clarified he was difficult Kartikeya Sharma’s victory as a result of a vote forged by a ruling mix MLA, which ought to have been declared invalid, was accepted as legitimate.
On studies that Congress’ Kiran Choudhary’s vote was declared invalid, he replied, “It was clear when Kiran Choudhary got here out after casting her vote, she herself stated that she had put a ‘tick mark’ towards the nominee’s title.”
“We had seen the poll quantity on which the tick mark was made and checked it is serial quantity and subsequently, there was little doubt that the rejected vote was that of Kiran Choudhary,” stated Maken.
The Congress chief additionally took a veiled dig at All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Haryana Vivek Bansal, saying the Congress’ authorised polling agent for the Rajya Sabha polls, who was proven each single vote, maintained till final that “we obtained 30 single choice votes, whereas solely 29 single choice votes had been forged”.
In a jolt to the Congress, BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and BJP-JJP backed Unbiased candidate Kartikeya Sharma had been declared elected final month for the 2 Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana.
“However one factor is there which is Kiran Choudhary’s mistake and our get together’s authorised agent’s mistake on the similar time statistically appears to be like inconceivable. So, they should inform who dedicated a mistake and who did it intentionally as a result of each can’t be at fault on the similar time,” Maken stated.
Congress had 31 MLAs within the 90-member state meeting and the numbers had been sufficient to safe Maken’s win. Nevertheless, get together legislator Kuldeep Bishnoi cross-voted whereas one other vote was declared invalid.
Talking to reporters exterior the excessive court docket complicated, the Congress chief stated a vote forged in favour of Sharma ought to have been rejected because it was not marked within the column the place the choice was purported to be marked.
Because the vote was counted as legitimate, it had a bearing on the ballot consequence, and subsequently, Maken stated, he needed to file the petition.
Replying to a query, Maken clarified he was difficult Kartikeya Sharma’s victory as a result of a vote forged by a ruling mix MLA, which ought to have been declared invalid, was accepted as legitimate.
On studies that Congress’ Kiran Choudhary’s vote was declared invalid, he replied, “It was clear when Kiran Choudhary got here out after casting her vote, she herself stated that she had put a ‘tick mark’ towards the nominee’s title.”
“We had seen the poll quantity on which the tick mark was made and checked it is serial quantity and subsequently, there was little doubt that the rejected vote was that of Kiran Choudhary,” stated Maken.
The Congress chief additionally took a veiled dig at All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Haryana Vivek Bansal, saying the Congress’ authorised polling agent for the Rajya Sabha polls, who was proven each single vote, maintained till final that “we obtained 30 single choice votes, whereas solely 29 single choice votes had been forged”.
In a jolt to the Congress, BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and BJP-JJP backed Unbiased candidate Kartikeya Sharma had been declared elected final month for the 2 Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana.
“However one factor is there which is Kiran Choudhary’s mistake and our get together’s authorised agent’s mistake on the similar time statistically appears to be like inconceivable. So, they should inform who dedicated a mistake and who did it intentionally as a result of each can’t be at fault on the similar time,” Maken stated.
Congress had 31 MLAs within the 90-member state meeting and the numbers had been sufficient to safe Maken’s win. Nevertheless, get together legislator Kuldeep Bishnoi cross-voted whereas one other vote was declared invalid.