Demanding to restrain Parliamentary Secretaries of the State from casting their votes in the elections for the lone seat of the Rajya Sabha in Chhattisgarh, a delegation of State unit of Congress party on Friday met the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), O.P. Rawat at the Election Commission of India (ECI) Office in New Delhi.
The CEC turned down the delegation’s plea on account of them not coming through proper channel and asked them to first approach the Governor and hand over their memorandum to him. Rawat said he could act only on Governor’s recommendation and hence the application needs to come through him, he said.
The Congress delegation was led by Chhattisgarh In-charge of AICC P.l. Punia comprising CGPCC Chief Bhupesh Baghel, leader of Opposition in Chhattisgarh Assembly T.S. Singhdeo, Rajya Sabha candidate from Congress party, lekhram Sahu and several other Congress MlAs .