Plea in Supreme Court by BJP leader to nullify polls if NOTA gets most votes

Nov. 30: BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay earlier this week has moved the Supreme Court for a direction that fresh elections should be held in a constituency within six months where NOTA (None of the above) garnered the maximum number of votes. He also sought that the contesting candidates, who are being rejected, in the nullified elections, shall not be allowed to participate in the fresh polls.

The plea said that the right to reject will check corruption, criminalisation, casteism, communalism, linguism and regionalism. He further stated that if the proposed changes are made, then the political parties would be forced to give tickets to honest and patriotic candidates.