India News | HC Rejects Petition Challenging Bypoll to Gandey Assembly Seat

Ranchi, Apr 25 (PTI) The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday rejected a petition challenging the notification issued by the Election Commission for the by-election to the Gandey assembly seat.

The petition contended that the notification is in conflict with section 151 A of the Representation of Peoples Act, which it claimed provides that where the remainder of the term is less than one year, no by-election could be held.

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The Gandey seat fell vacant after JMM MLA Sarfaraz Ahmad resigned on December 31 last year.

Since the term of the present assembly will expire in January 2025, the by-election of the Gandey seat will be irrelevant, the petitioners argued.

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A bench of Justice Ananda Sen after hearing the arguments upheld the notification issued by the EC to hold the by-election.

The ruling JMM has fielded Kalpana Soren, who is the wife of former chief minister Hemant Soren, for the bypoll.

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