Twin authorized jolts to BJP: MLA Jajji more likely to get disqualified, MLA Rahul Lodhi’s election declared void

By Express News Service

BHOPAL: The ruling BJP has suffered twin jolts inside 5 days, as two of its legislators, together with ex-Chief Minister Uma Bharti’s nephew Rahul Singh Lodhi and union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia-loyalist Jajpal Singh Jajji, are more likely to lose their Vidhan Sabha membership, following orders from the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

The principal bench of the MP High Court in Jabalpur, had on December 7, put aside the 2018 election of Khargapur (Tikamgarh) MLA Rahul Singh Lodhi over improper submitting of nomination papers.

On the opposite hand, the High Court’s Gwalior bench on Monday ordered the quashing and confiscation of the ‘Nat’ scheduled caste (SC) standing of Ashok Nagar (SC) legislator Jajpal Singh Jajji with instant impact. This will now result in his disqualification as MLA from a seat reserved for SC candidates.

While listening to the writ petition filed by Er Ladduram Kori (the BJP candidate who misplaced to the-then Congress candidate Jajpal Singh Jajji within the 2018 polls) in 2020, the one decide HC bench headed by Justice GS Ahluwalia directed Ashok Nagar district police superintendent to lodge an FIR in opposition to the BJP MLA.

Jajji fought and received the 2 polls — the 2018 Assembly polls on a Congress ticket and the 2020 by-election on a BJP ticket — from the identical seat utilizing the now-quashed SC standing certificates. 

Senior counsel Sangam Jain (who represented petitioner Ladduram Kori) stated, “The HC has quashed the SC certificates, thereby not contemplating the sitting MLA to be from a Scheduled caste. The HC has additionally requested the courtroom’s registry to ship a duplicate of the order to the MP Vidhan Sabha Speaker for additional motion.”

A price of Rs 50,000 has additionally been imposed on the MLA which is to be deposited earlier than the courtroom’s registry inside a month, he added.

Jajji was among the many 22 Scindia-loyalist Congress MLAs, who scripted the autumn of the 15-month-old Congress authorities led by Kamal Nath in March 2020. In November 2020, he had received the identical Ashok Nagar (SC) seat on a BJP ticket.

Earlier, on December 7, a single decide bench of the MP High Court in Jabalpur, headed by Justice Nandita Dubey, had put aside and declared void Rahul Singh Lodhi’s 2018 election from the Khargapur seat.

The courtroom additional ordered that because the election of Lodhi is being declared void, he should not be allowed any advantages of this election.

In the election petition filed in 2019 by Congress candidate Chanda Singh Gour (he had misplaced to Lodhi within the 2018 polls however had defeated Lodhi within the 2013 polls), it was talked about that Lodhi’s nomination papers have been improperly accepted, which had materially affected the ballot’s outcome.

Chanda had alleged that Lodhi submitted two nomination varieties with completely different data relating to his standing as companion within the Firm, M/s R.S. Constructions, Tikamgarh. The agency had a contract with MPRRDA which quantities to deprave practices as enumerated below Section 100 (1) (b) & (d)(i) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, she said.

She additionally alleged that Lodhi, in his 2018 ballot nomination papers, suppressed the truth that the High Court had imposed a price of Rs 10,000 in Election Petition No.11/2014 (Rahul Singh Lodhi Vs. Chanda Singh Gour), and had not given the fee to the petitioner, thus he was responsible of non-compliance of the order of HC below the provisions of Section 100 (1)(d)(iv) RPA Act 1951.

Additionally, as per the HC order, the final date for submission of the nomination paper was November 9, 2018, however the returning officer had accepted Lodhi’s paperwork after that date.

In the 230-member-strong Vidhan Sabha in Madhya Pradesh, the ruling BJP presently has 130 members (together with an Independent, an SP MLA, and a BSP MLA who joined the saffron celebration in June 2022), whereas the prime opposition Congress has 96 MLAs.

BHOPAL: The ruling BJP has suffered twin jolts inside 5 days, as two of its legislators, together with ex-Chief Minister Uma Bharti’s nephew Rahul Singh Lodhi and union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia-loyalist Jajpal Singh Jajji, are more likely to lose their Vidhan Sabha membership, following orders from the Madhya Pradesh High Court.

The principal bench of the MP High Court in Jabalpur, had on December 7, put aside the 2018 election of Khargapur (Tikamgarh) MLA Rahul Singh Lodhi over improper submitting of nomination papers.

On the opposite hand, the High Court’s Gwalior bench on Monday ordered the quashing and confiscation of the ‘Nat’ scheduled caste (SC) standing of Ashok Nagar (SC) legislator Jajpal Singh Jajji with instant impact. This will now result in his disqualification as MLA from a seat reserved for SC candidates.

While listening to the writ petition filed by Er Ladduram Kori (the BJP candidate who misplaced to the-then Congress candidate Jajpal Singh Jajji within the 2018 polls) in 2020, the one decide HC bench headed by Justice GS Ahluwalia directed Ashok Nagar district police superintendent to lodge an FIR in opposition to the BJP MLA.

Jajji fought and received the 2 polls — the 2018 Assembly polls on a Congress ticket and the 2020 by-election on a BJP ticket — from the identical seat utilizing the now-quashed SC standing certificates. 

Senior counsel Sangam Jain (who represented petitioner Ladduram Kori) stated, “The HC has quashed the SC certificates, thereby not contemplating the sitting MLA to be from a Scheduled caste. The HC has additionally requested the courtroom’s registry to ship a duplicate of the order to the MP Vidhan Sabha Speaker for additional motion.”

A price of Rs 50,000 has additionally been imposed on the MLA which is to be deposited earlier than the courtroom’s registry inside a month, he added.

Jajji was among the many 22 Scindia-loyalist Congress MLAs, who scripted the autumn of the 15-month-old Congress authorities led by Kamal Nath in March 2020. In November 2020, he had received the identical Ashok Nagar (SC) seat on a BJP ticket.

Earlier, on December 7, a single decide bench of the MP High Court in Jabalpur, headed by Justice Nandita Dubey, had put aside and declared void Rahul Singh Lodhi’s 2018 election from the Khargapur seat.

The courtroom additional ordered that because the election of Lodhi is being declared void, he should not be allowed any advantages of this election.

In the election petition filed in 2019 by Congress candidate Chanda Singh Gour (he had misplaced to Lodhi within the 2018 polls however had defeated Lodhi within the 2013 polls), it was talked about that Lodhi’s nomination papers have been improperly accepted, which had materially affected the ballot’s outcome.

Chanda had alleged that Lodhi submitted two nomination varieties with completely different data relating to his standing as companion within the Firm, M/s R.S. Constructions, Tikamgarh. The agency had a contract with MPRRDA which quantities to deprave practices as enumerated below Section 100 (1) (b) & (d)(i) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, she said.

She additionally alleged that Lodhi, in his 2018 ballot nomination papers, suppressed the truth that the High Court had imposed a price of Rs 10,000 in Election Petition No.11/2014 (Rahul Singh Lodhi Vs. Chanda Singh Gour), and had not given the fee to the petitioner, thus he was responsible of non-compliance of the order of HC below the provisions of Section 100 (1)(d)(iv) RPA Act 1951.

Additionally, as per the HC order, the final date for submission of the nomination paper was November 9, 2018, however the returning officer had accepted Lodhi’s paperwork after that date.

In the 230-member-strong Vidhan Sabha in Madhya Pradesh, the ruling BJP presently has 130 members (together with an Independent, an SP MLA, and a BSP MLA who joined the saffron celebration in June 2022), whereas the prime opposition Congress has 96 MLAs.