Mar 26, 2025 02:09 PM IST
Verma defeated former chief minister and Aam Aadmi Celebration nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal by over 4,000 votes within the polls held in February.
The Delhi excessive courtroom on Wednesday issued a discover PWD and water minister Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma on a plea difficult his election from the New Delhi meeting constituency within the just lately concluded Vidhan Sabha polls.
Delhi cupboard minister Parvesh Verma. (Photograph from X)
The plea sought instructions to the Election Fee of India (ECI) to conduct contemporary polls for the seat, from the place Verma was elected, on grounds that the election was held with out following the prescribed procedures and pointers.
Verma defeated former chief minister and Aam Aadmi Celebration nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal, which the latter represented since 2013, by over 4,000 votes within the meeting elections held in February.
A bench of justice Jasmeet Singh sought ECI’s response within the plea filed by one Vishvanath Agarwal, who was nominated by the Nationalist Congress Celebration however couldn’t contest the polls from the constituency on account of non-acceptance of his nomination type.
The courtroom sought response from different candidates who had contested the elections from the constituency together with Varma, Kejriwal, Congress chief Sandeep Dikshit, and stuck Could 27 as the subsequent date of listening to.
Agarwal’s plea, additionally in search of to declare your complete election as null and void, painted an image that the returning officer (RO) didn’t conduct free and honest elections by partaking in unfair, biased, unlawful observe and denied him free entry to his room.
It went on so as to add that the RO abused the process established by legislation and the rules set forth within the Handbook for Returning Officer, by locking his room from inside throughout the time allotted for receiving nomination papers and opening the identical jiffy earlier than the stipulated time.
“The proceedings adopted in the filing of nomination is bad in law as the issue pertains to statutory duty of respondent number 3 (RO) conferred upon him by the Constitution and the statute enacted thereunder,” the plea said.
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