Election Petitions filed before Delhi HC against the election of CM Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia

Election Petitions have been filed before the Delhi High Court challenging the election process which led to the victory of Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal and Deputy CM, Manish Sisodia in the recently held Assembly Elections. (Pratap Chandra vs Manish Sisodia & Ors).Notice was issued today by a Single Judge Bench of Justice V Kameswar Rao in the petition concerning the election of Sisodia from Patparganj. .Hearing in the election petition concerning the election of Kejriwal was deferred by a Single Judge Bench of Justice Mukta Gupta to allow the Petitioner to carry out typographical correction in the plea..The Petitioner in the two election petitions is one Pratap Chandra who had contested the polls against Kejriwal as well as Sisodia in their respective constituencies..The Petitioner is a member of a political party called Rashtriya Rashtrawadi Party. .The Petitioner has sought for a direction to set aside the elections held in the two constituencies, i.e. New Delhi and Patparganj, on the ground that continued advertisement by parties till the last stage of the election had vitiated the entire election process..The Petition states,“..as per section 126 of The R P Act 1951 no one is permitted to get undue advantage by way of any kind of Election Matter advertisement for making appeals to the voters to cast their votes in their favour before the 48 hours of the conclusion of the polling day but the high handed candidates of the political parties putting their election matter advertisement in various Hoarding, Bus Shelter and Public Utility Display Board in which they have made appeals in favour of party as well as Symbol on 08.02.2020..”.The Petitioner has contended that the election advertisements were allowed to be displayed in spite of the fact that he had registered his objections regarding the same with the Election Commission Authorities on several ocassions. .The Petitioner has, therefore, sought a fresh bye-election on the expenses of responsible political party and candidate for the sake of democratic set up.