Following the rejection of three nomination papers by the election commission, 17 candidates are left in the fray for Haridwar Lok Sabha constituency. The objections raised against the BJP and the Congress candidates have been rejected by the district election commission after the hearing was held with the district magistrate Deepak Rawat in the chair.
In all, 20 candidates had filed their nomination papers for the April 11 Lok Sabha poll from the constituency. Independent candidate Manish Verma had raised objection to the nomination paper of the BJP candidate Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank. The objections listed in the affidavit raised some issues, including his unpaid rent against the possession of a house in Dehradun by way of being the former CM of the state.
The lawyer of Nishank defended his client and said the objections to his nomination were untenable. He further said that there was no outstanding regarding the rent of the residence Nishank had as the former chief minister of the state.
Similar charges were made against the Congress contestant Ambrish Kumar by a resident of Vishnu ghat Pradeep Kumar. The charges made were that the candidate had not disclosed a case registered against him during the 2017 Assembly poll and he had kept away information of a flat he had from the nomination details this time. However, the lawyer for Ambrish Kumar said that the government had taken back the case and he had sold the flat off.
After hearing both sides, the district election officer Deepak Rawat rejected the objections.