Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Tuesday represented to the Chief Election Commissioner to cancel the nomination of Ferozepur’s sitting MP Sher Singh Ghubaya, who is the Congress candidate from Ferozepur parliamentary constituency, for “wilfully concealing facts and deliberately filing a wrong election expenditure statement before the Election Commission in 2014”.
SAD’s senior vice-president Daljit Singh Cheema submitted a formal complaint to Punjab Chief Electoral Officer Dr S Karuna Raju giving details of a television sting in which Ghubaya is seen admitting in front of the camera that in 2014 parliamentary elections, his total election expenditure was approximately Rs 30 crores.
The complaint stated that as per the Election Commission guidelines, if anybody exceeded the expenditure limit fixed by the EC, he was liable for disqualification. “As per Ghubaya’s own statement, he had violated the expenditure norms and due action should be taken against him for concealing the true facts vis-Ã -vis his election expenditure. Cheema, also submitting a copy of the entire television sting operation to the EC, urged the EC to get the entire facts verified so that swift action could be taken against Ghubaya.