The Congress party on Tuesday asserted that the proposers of BJP’s Rajya Sabha nominee Saroj Pandey in all the four sets of nomination papers are ‘Parliamentary Secretaries’ and their memberships of Chhattisgarh Assembly are in question, in an objection filed with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Chhattisgarh demanding rejection of the nomination.
In the letter to CEO, Congress nominee for the Rajya Sabha seat from Chhattisgarh, lekhram Sahu claimed that in the first set of nomination filed by Saroj Pandey, Rupkumari Chaudhari is proposer, in the second the proposers are Ambesh Jangde, Shivshankar Painkra, Suniti Rathia, Satyanand Rathia, while in the third set lakhan Dewangan, Raju Singh Kshatri, Tokhan Sahu are the proposers. In the fourth set Gowardhan Singh Manjhi is the proposer.
The Assembly membership of all these proposers are in question as a decision and final disposal in their case is pending for their membership in High Court of Chhattisgarh, he said.
Final hearing has been done and only a decision is awaited, Sahu said.