After hearing the matter, a bench of Justice H S Madaan issued a notice – returnable on September 19, 2022 – to Sharma. The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday issued a notice to Kartikeya Sharma over a petition filed by senior Congress leader Ajay Maken, who has challenged the BJP-JJP-backed Independent candidate’s (Kartikeya Sharma) victory in the recent Rajya Sabha polls.
Sharma had won the Rajya Sabha election by a wafer-thin margin after he received 29.6 votes against Maken’s 29.
After hearing the matter, a bench of Justice H S Madaan issued a notice – returnable on September 19, 2022 – to Sharma.
As per Maken, he has challenged Sharma’s victory because a vote cast by an Independent MLA which should have been declared invalid, was accepted as valid.
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The vote should have been rejected as the MLA had not marked preference in the mandated column. As the vote was counted as valid, it had a bearing on the poll result, according to Maken. In a jolt to the Congress, BJP’s Krishan Lal Panwar and BJP-JJP-backed Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma were declared winners in the recent election to two Rajya Sabha seats from Haryana.
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First published on: 18-08-2022 at 04:10:30 am