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SC sets aside EC's notification, says NOTA can't be permitted in Rajya Sabha polls
The Supreme Court today said the option of none of the above NOTA cannot be permitted in Rajya Sabha elections
The Supreme Court today said the option of none of the above (NOTA) cannot be permitted in Rajya Sabha elections.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud has set aside the Election Commission's notification allowing NOTA option in the ballot papers for Rajya Sabha polls.
The apex court had questioned the poll panel's notification and said that NOTA was meant to be exercised by individual voters in direct polls.
The verdict came on a plea of Shailesh Manubhai Parmar, who was the Congress's chief whip in the Gujarat assembly during the last Rajya Sabha polls, in which the party had fielded sitting MP Ahmed Patel.
Parmar had challenged the poll panel's notification allowing the NOTA option in ballot papers.
The top court had earlier said by introducing NOTA, the poll panel was legitimising the act of not voting.
The Gujarat Congress leader had alleged that if the NOTA provision was allowed in the Rajya Sabha polls, it would encourage "horse-trading and corruption".
The poll panel had said NOTA was first introduced in 2014 following an apex court verdict a year earlier and they (the Congress) did not have any objection in subsequent polls as it suited them.
