Hyderabad: MIM challenges BJP candidate's win

Jambagh: The Jambagh candidate of AIMIM, Jadala Ravindra who contested in the recently held GHMC elections, has filed a petition before the Election Tribunal-Cum-Chief Judge at city civil courts, challenging the decision of Election Commission declaring BJP candidate as the winner.

He alleged misrepresentation of facts by the BJP-elect candidate, Rakesh Jaiswal, in the election affidavit, as he has flouted the two-child norm and actually he is the father of three children.

In the petition, he mentioned "The returning officer firstly as per the provision in the GHMC Act, 1955, section 21-B clearly mandated that Person having more than Two Children to be disqualified. The BJP candidate has ingeniously suppressed the material facts before the returning officer about the fact that he is having three children, two females and a male namely Aakash Jaiswal born on 13.02.1987, Aakriti Jaiswal born on 09.01.1990, and Srijitha Jaiswal born on 14.04.1996."

The petitioner's lawyer Khaja Aijazuddin said, "Even though the petitioner and his agents sought to know and asked the returning officer to place the ballot papers for the rejected votes, the election authorities failed to accede the request of the petitioner and proceeded to declare the BJP candidate as a winner," he claimed. He also asked the SEC to recount the votes and also to include the rejected votes and declare him as a winner.

According to the Telangana State Election Commission data, the total voters in Jambagh division are 47212. The total valid votes were 23603, rejected votes were 987 and NOTA (None of the Above) were 63. J Ravindra lost the election by a margin of 182 votes.