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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

SC points Congress' Meenakshi Natarajan to EC remedy in nomination dispute

The Supreme Court on Friday indicated that challenges to the rejection of election nomination papers are ordinarily not entertained at the pre-election stage, observing that candidates whose nominations are rejected by a returning officer generally have recourse to remedies available under the election law framework, PTI reported.

The observations came while a bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Atul S. Chandurkar heard a petition filed by Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan challenging the rejection of her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh.

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