‘Cancel membership of all MLAs and MP who’ve used faux caste certificates’: VHP

Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has demanded the cancellation of membership of all these “fraudulent” MPs and MLAs who gained reserved seats by submitting “fake caste certificates.”

Reacting over the latest Kerala High Court order, setting apart the election of CPI(M)’s A Raja from Devikulam Assembly seat in Idukki district, VHP spokesperson Vinod Bansal stated right here on Tuesday, “Hindu society will not tolerate such unfairness against the members of our SC brothers at any cost.”

“A Raja’s membership was cancelled from Kerala’s Devikulam constituency. It was found that he became an MLA by contesting for an SC seat using a fake caste certificate. When you scan the data, you will find that there are innumerable such MLAs in the country, who are sitting in Parliament, and hurting the pride of the SC community,” the VHP chief stated on the Bharat Swagat Utsav programme right here Tuesday.

He additional added, “We demand that the membership of all such fraudulent Christian MPs and MLAs should be cancelled, who are sitting in the Houses using such fake caste certificates by cheating on the rights of Scheduled Castes”.

The Kerala High Court on Monday cancelled the results of the meeting election held at Devikulam constituency in Idukki district, noting that the MLA doesn’t qualify to contest from the constituency.

The High Court put aside the election on a petition filed by Congress chief D Kumar, who was the runner-up within the 2021 Assembly polls, alleging that Raja was not certified to contest the Devikulam seat reserved for the Scheduled Caste (SC) neighborhood.

Kumar had alleged that Raja belongs to the Christian neighborhood and doesn’t qualify to contest for a seat reserved for the Schedule Caste (SC).

The elections on the constituency of Devikulam had been held in 2021, and CPM chief A Raja gained by a margin of over 7000 votes.

Devikulam occurs to be a seat reserved for the candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste neighborhood.

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