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New Delhi: Citing an order passed by the Bombay High Court setting aside the Election Commission of Indias notification for holding a bypoll for the Akola West assembly seat in Maharashtras Vidarbha, a Congress MLA has now demanded that the poll body quash the same for the Karnal assembly seat where a bye-election is slated to take place on 25 May...
In a letter to the ECI, Congress MLA from Faridabad NIT Neeraj Sharma has submitted that holding a bye-election for Karnal at this time would amount to wastage of public money since whoever is elected from the seat will only remain a member of the assembly for a period of four months...
The repercussions of the cancellation of the notification of the Karnal assembly bypoll, however, could have larger implications since the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Haryana has declared Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini as its candidate for the Karnal bypoll...
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court had on 26 March quashed the notification issued for the Akola West bypoll on the ground that the same would amount to a violation of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, since the elected legislator would get a term of less than one year given that the term of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha is set to end on 3 November 2024...
If the court quashes the notification for the bypoll, then the party will be left with only two options: Either to change the chief minister or to call for early elections in Haryana since a person appointed as chief minister who is not a member of the assembly can hold office only for six months since the date of the appointment if not elected to the assembly during this time...
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