NEW DELHI: The Congress today approached the Election Commission demanding cancellation of votes of its two disgruntled MLAs for allegedly showing their votes to persons other than the authorised party representatives in the Gujarat Rajya Sabha poll.
Congress leaders Randeep Surjewala and RPN Singh today met the Commission officials and demanded that votes of Bholabhai Gohil and Raghavjibhai Patel be cancelled as per law since they violated the “secrecy of ballot”.
The Congress also produced a video of the poll proceedings to the commission.
According to the rules, voters for the Rajya Sabha elections have to show their ballots to their respective party’s authorised representative before exercising their franchise.
“The votes cast by these two MLAs are required to be cancelled for the reason of voting procedure violation,” the party said in its memorandum to the Commission. (AGENCIES)
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