“WB Panchayat Polls: Calcutta High Court seeks State EC’s response on forced withdrawal of 20,585 nominations”, Organiser, June 24, 2023:
“On June 22, the Calcutta High Court sought a response from the West Bengal State Election Commission on the anomalous situation concerning the 2023 Panchayat Elections, wherein an astronomical 20,585 withdrawal of nominations has taken place. The BJP Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari’s moved the court challenging the State Election Commission’s wilful disobedience of the court’s past orders.
The Calcutta High Court’s Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Uday Kumar, heard the case. The court directed the commission to file their affidavit by June 27, 2023 and listed the case for the next hearing on June 28.
The court orally remarked, “We don’t understand how the Commission is being run…the voters themselves are complaining that someone who was desirous of filing nomination was not able and their right of choice is being affected….”
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