Supreme Court to hear Rajya Sabha election plea ....The plea has been filed against the Election Commission
TT, 19 June 2019: The Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear a plea that Gujarat Congress
legislature party leader Paresh Dhanani has filed against the Election
Commission’s decision to hold separate bypolls to fill two Rajya Sabha
seats from the state.
A vacation bench of Justices Deepak Gupta
and Surya Kant agreed to hear the petition on June 19 after it was
mentioned on Tuesday.
Dhanani has sought a directive for
simultaneous polls against all vacancies in the Rajya Sabha. The plea
said the panel’s media release on June 15 termed the statutory vacancies
in Gujarat as “casual vacancies”, which was a “direct violation of the…
RPA”.
The contention is that BJP leaders Amit Shah and Smriti
Irani got elected to the Lok Sabha at the same time, so it was legally
incumbent on them to resign their Rajya Sabha seats, which makes the
vacancies statutory. If the polls are de-linked, the BJP would win both
seats because of its majority in the Assembly.
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