AAP seeks forgery case against Congress' Surat Lok Sabha candidate after his nomination form rejected
The Hindu
Aam Aadmi Party in Gujarat urged poll authorities to register a case against Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form as a Congress candidate for the Surat Lok Sabha constituency was rejected recently
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Gujarat on April 24 urged poll authorities to register a case against Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form as a Congress candidate for the Surat Lok Sabha constituency was rejected recently over alleged discrepancies in the signatures of proposers that ultimately led to the BJP winning the seat unopposed.
AAP leader and party's Surat Lok Sabha president Rajnikant Vaghani demanded that either Mr. Kumbhani be booked on the charges of forgery or his proposers be booked for giving false declaration on oath.
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Both AAP and Congress are the constituents of opposition's INDIA bloc.
As per the seat-sharing agreement, the AAP did not field a candidate in Surat.
In a letter addressed to Surat Collector and District Election Officer Sourabh Pardhi on Wednesday, Vaghani cited Pardhi's April 21 order, in which, he had rejected Kumbhani's nomination saying there was discrepancy in the signatures of the proposers in the form and they did not appear to be genuine.
The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated on the same ground, pushing Gujarat's principal opposition party out of the poll fray in the city.