SC refuses to entertain Cong’s plea against separate bypolls for 2 Gujarat RS seats
The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to entertain a plea by the Gujarat Congress challenging the Election Commission’s decision to hold separate bypolls to two Rajya Sabha seats in the state.A vacation bench comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice B R Gavai, however, granted liberty to the Gujarat Congress to file ‘election petition’ after conclusion of polls to the two Rajya Sabha seats vacated by Union Ministers Amit Shah and Smriti Irani.An election petition is a procedure to call into question the election results of parliamentary, Assembly or local elections.The two…
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