By Express News Service
AHMEDABAD: Four defeated candidates have challenged the Assembly 2022 election result before Gujarat High Court. Two defeated candidates of the Gujarat Congress Lalit Kagthra and Raghu Desai and two defeated candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Harshad Ribdia and Hitesh Vasava have filed a petition in Gujarat high court to review their election results.
The results of the Gujarat assembly elections were declared in December 2022 in which the defeated candidates filed a petition against the candidates who won their seats. This application is made under the Representation of the People Act, of 1951.
In a conversation with , Lalit Kagathara, the Congress candidate who lost the Tankara seat, said, “At the time of the election, there were several errors in the affidavit of the BJP candidate Durabh Vekaria, about which I complained to the Returning Officer. But the returning officer had accepted the candidate’s form without considering our complaints.”
“There were many errors in Durhabbhai’s form; I pointed out to the Returning Officer that the BJP candidate had left blank more than 13 spaces in his form which required answers and had given some wrong information. Like how he wrote a blank SSC in the education column when as per the rule it is necessary to write which year you passed out and from which school,” said Lalit Kagathara.
“Apart from this, they have not given the bank account details. His income tax return has not been shown; he owns an Innova car for the use of which he sought from the Election Commission, which is also not shown in his immovable property,” he added.
BJP’s Visavdar candidate Harshad Ribdia has submitted in his application that the winning Aam Admi Party candidate Bhupendra Bhayani has not mentioned the details of cases registered against him about corruption and fraud in his affidavit, besides this, he has also hidden the details of his sons owning factories.
Congress candidate Raghu Desai said in his application that after the voting we have been given a certificate of 58% voting but at 10 pm the election officer declared 64% voting.
In the petition, the petitioners have made the Election Commission and Returning Officer, a party.
AHMEDABAD: Four defeated candidates have challenged the Assembly 2022 election result before Gujarat High Court. Two defeated candidates of the Gujarat Congress Lalit Kagthra and Raghu Desai and two defeated candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Harshad Ribdia and Hitesh Vasava have filed a petition in Gujarat high court to review their election results.
The results of the Gujarat assembly elections were declared in December 2022 in which the defeated candidates filed a petition against the candidates who won their seats. This application is made under the Representation of the People Act, of 1951.
In a conversation with , Lalit Kagathara, the Congress candidate who lost the Tankara seat, said, “At the time of the election, there were several errors in the affidavit of the BJP candidate Durabh Vekaria, about which I complained to the Returning Officer. But the returning officer had accepted the candidate’s form without considering our complaints.”
“There were many errors in Durhabbhai’s form; I pointed out to the Returning Officer that the BJP candidate had left blank more than 13 spaces in his form which required answers and had given some wrong information. Like how he wrote a blank SSC in the education column when as per the rule it is necessary to write which year you passed out and from which school,” said Lalit Kagathara.
“Apart from this, they have not given the bank account details. His income tax return has not been shown; he owns an Innova car for the use of which he sought from the Election Commission, which is also not shown in his immovable property,” he added.
BJP’s Visavdar candidate Harshad Ribdia has submitted in his application that the winning Aam Admi Party candidate Bhupendra Bhayani has not mentioned the details of cases registered against him about corruption and fraud in his affidavit, besides this, he has also hidden the details of his sons owning factories.
Congress candidate Raghu Desai said in his application that after the voting we have been given a certificate of 58% voting but at 10 pm the election officer declared 64% voting.
In the petition, the petitioners have made the Election Commission and Returning Officer, a party.
