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Ahead of Rajya Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh, Congress leaders on Tuesday alleged poaching attempts by Bharatiya Janata Party and shifted its MLAs to Congress-ruled Karnataka to prevent cross-voting. "All Congress MLAs are being shifted to Bengaluru in party-ruled Karnataka," Saunsar MLA Vijay Revanath Choure told news agency PTI. This comes after the Congress Legislature Party held a meeting late Monday night at the residence of leader of opposition in the MP assembly, Umang Singhar.
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The Election Commission is likely to meet a Congress delegation on Wednesday over the rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan's nomination for the Rajya Sabha polls from Madhya Pradesh. This comes after Congress leaders protested outside the EC office in Delhi after the Returning Officer for the Rajya Sabha election rejected Natarajan's nomination on the grounds that she had allegedly concealed information about a case in her affidavit. Congress leaders, including Jairam Ramesh, KC Venugopal,...
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'Egregious, blatantly unlawful': Cong challenges RS rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan
Congress on Wednesday urged the Election Commission (EC) to immediately reverse the rejection of its Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan's nomination from Madhya Pradesh, calling the poll body's decision 'egregious' and 'blatantly unlawful'. A delegation of senior Congress leaders, including KC Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, Deepa Dasmunshi, Vivek Tankha and Abhishek Singhvi, met Election Commission officials in New Delhi and argued that Natarajan's nomination had been...
Congress hangs RSS uniform at Bhopal election office over Natarajan's Rajya Sabha rejection
Escalating its protest against the rejection of Congress Rajya Sabha candidate Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination, Congress workers on Wednesday hung a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) uniform on the locked gate of the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in Bhopal, accusing constitutional institutions of functioning under ideological influence. The workers reached the CEO office in the morning, found the gate shut, briefly staged a protest and left after hanging the RSS dress outside...