Sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav on Monday approached Supreme Court challenging rejection of his nomination from Varanasi Lok Sabha Seat. Samajwadi Party has named Yadav to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi where polling is slated for May 19, the seventh and the last phase of polling.
Dismissed BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav approaches Supreme Court challenging rejection of his nomination as Samajwadi Party candidate from Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency. Advocate Prashant Bhushan is appearing for Yadav (file pic) pic.twitter.com/Wr5x1zqZh7
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Senior Advocate Prashant Bhushan will appear for dismissed BSF Jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav in the Top Court.
The nomination of Sacked BSF Jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav was rejected by the poll officials last week. My nomination has been rejected wrongly. I was asked to produce the evidence at 6.15pm yesterday, we produced the evidence, still, my nomination was rejected. We will go to the Supreme Court’, said sacked BSF Jawan after his nomination was rejected by the Election Officials.
The Election Commission had earlier issued a notice to SP-BSP joint candidate for providing incomplete information in his nomination papers.
Reportedly, Shalini Yadav has filed her nomination as a supplementary candidate who is now likely to be SP candidate for the mega polls for Varanasi Lok Sabha Seat.
However, Varanasi District Magistrate said that his nomination was rejected after he failed to produce a document which was asked by the Officials to submit. ‘A person who has been dismissed from service from state or central govt within last 5 yrs has to obtain a certificate from EC stating he/she hasn’t been dismissed due to disloyalty or corruption. The certificate wasn’t produced before 11 am, so, the nomination was rejected’ said Varanasi DM on Wednesday last.
READ: Lok Sabha Polls 2019: SP’s Candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav’s nomination for Varanasi cancelled
Tej Bahadur Yadav who had earlier filed nomination his nomination as an Independent was named as Samajwadi Party candidate at the very last moment. Samajwadi party replaced Shalini Yadav with Yadav for Varanasi Lok Sabha Seat – a seat from where PM Modi is seeking his second term.
Congress has named Ajai Rai as its candidate for the mega polls 2019.
Varanasi Lok Sabha Seat will go to polls on May 19, four days before counting. The last date to file nomination for the polls due for May 19 was April 29.
Modi had in 2014 General elections defeated AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal with over 3.80 Lakh votes. Prior to Narendra Modi, BJP Senior Leader Murli Manohar Joshi represented the Varanasi Seat since 2009-2014.
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