kande: Rajya Sabha poll: Shiv Sena MLA Suhas Kande moves High Court against ECI holding his vote invalid

Shiv Sena MLA Suhas Kande on Monday approached the Bombay Excessive Courtroom in opposition to the Election Fee of India’s (ECI) determination declaring his vote forged within the final week’s Rajya Sabha elections as invalid, after the BJP alleged that he violated the voting course of. Kande, in his petition filed by advocate Ajinkya Udane, mentioned the ECI’s determination discharging his vote has prompted grave prejudice to his dignity and status, and sought that the HC quash and put aside the ECI’s determination.

Udane talked about Kande’s petition earlier than a division bench of Justices S V Gangapurwala and Dhiraj Singh Thakur in search of pressing listening to. The court docket posted the plea for listening to on June 15.

Kande in his plea claimed that on June 10, when the Rajya Sabha elections have been held for six seats in Maharashtra, he had gone to the electoral corridor (on the Vidhan Bhawan in Mumbai), exercised his proper to vote, made the required endorsement on the poll paper and as per guidelines, got here out and confirmed the poll paper to Shiv Sena chief Sunil Prabhu, who had issued a whip for the polls.

“It’s alleged by MLA Yogesh Sagar that the petitioner had proven his poll paper to the whip of one other political occasion. This isn’t true and the petitioner had proven his poll paper to solely Sunil Prabhu and to not some other political occasion,” the petition mentioned.

Sagar should have raised this objection at the moment and never after Kande left the electoral corridor, the petition mentioned.

It additional claimed that the election officer in-charge of the ballot station had given his ruling that the allegations made by Sagar weren’t factually right and that Kande’s vote was legitimate.

“Nevertheless, later within the night, a number of leaders of the BJP met with the ECI elevating the identical grievance. No discover was given to the petitioner (Kande) and with out in search of Kande’s response, the ECI thought it match to intervene with the choice taken by the election officer and held Kande’s vote as invalid,” the petition mentioned.

Within the fiercely-contested polls for complete six seats from Maharashtra on Friday, Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Pawar misplaced to BJP’s Dhananjay Mahadik- its third nominee. The Shiv Sena and its allies NCP and the Congress gained one seat every.

The BJP gained all of the three seats it had contested.