Voting within the state will happen in two phases on November 7 and 17.(Representational picture: Reuters)
The Congress has to this point declared candidates for 83 out of the full 90 seats within the state which is able to go to polls in two phases on November 7 and 17
The opposition BJP in Chhattisgarh has filed a grievance with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) in Raipur looking for motion towards 83 Congress candidates, claiming they haven’t furnished their felony file particulars to the Election Commission inside 48 hours of their choice.
The Congress, nonetheless, claimed the BJP was levelling false allegations towards the ruling occasion candidates.
A Congress spokesperson mentioned they haven’t given tickets to individuals with “criminal tendencies” and that they are going to fulfil the standards laid down by the Election Commission.
The Congress has to this point declared candidates for 83 out of the full 90 seats within the state which is able to go to polls in two phases on November 7 and 17.
In the grievance submitted to the CEO on Saturday, the BJP has cited the Supreme Court’s order, in accordance to which political events should submit to the Election Commission the felony antecedents of candidates inside 48 hours of their choice, BJP’s state authorized cell convener Jaiprakash Chandravanshi in a press release.
The Congress neither submitted the felony data of its 83 candidates to the EC nor printed it on the occasion’s web site, social media or in two newspapers, together with a nationwide and an area, which quantities to violation of the apex courtroom’s order, he claimed.
The record of Congress candidates who haven’t declared their felony data has been enclosed with the grievance looking for acceptable motion towards them for alleged contempt of the SC’s orders, Chandravanshi added.
When contacted, state Congress spokesperson Dhananjay Singh Thakur mentioned their occasion has not given tickets to individuals with “criminal tendencies”, and alleged that it’s the BJP’s character to defend criminals and area them in elections.
The BJP has been levelling false allegations towards Congress candidates who’ve a “clean image”, he mentioned.
“We will fulfil the criteria laid down by the Election Commission,” the Congress chief mentioned.
Voting in 20 meeting constituencies out of the full 90 will likely be held within the first section on November 7 for which submitting of nominations ended on Friday.
Candidates from the Congress, BJP and different events have filed their nominations for the primary section and it’s obligatory for the nominees to disclose their felony antecedents, if any, within the nomination papers.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
