DJ Venkatesh
Diglipur, Aug 27: At Shibpur Panchayat during the scrutiny of the nomination papers of Mr. Gautam Biswas, a BJP candidate for Pradhan post, other party candidates found that the authorization signature in ‘B’ Form was not there. Following this INC and CPI(M) workers submitted written objections to the Returning officer.
The BJP party workers after the objections tried to deposit a new ‘B’ form containing the signature of authorized person but others raised objection near the RO office and raised slogan against the Returning Officer.
The Election officials reached the spot and discussed the matter with the Director of Panchayat and Municipal elections at Port Blair who later allowed accepting the nomination papers.
The RO told the protesting candidates to go through Handbook at page No. 23 presumption of validity no. 6 and page No. 24 point 9.1 and 9.2 , but the INC candidates argued that the said rules speaks only about party symbol and clerical mistakes not about signature. During this the Police reached the spot and controlled the situation. The INC and CPI(M) party workers are now preparing for registering an appeal in this matter.
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