The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the Election Commission’s notification that allowed the exercise of NOTA option in the upcoming Gujarat Rajya Sabha elections scheduled to take place on August 8.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to stay the Election Commission’s notification that allowed the exercise of NOTA (none of the above) option in the upcoming Gujarat Rajya Sabha elections scheduled to take place on August 8. A bench led by Justice Dipak Misra while seeking response of the Election Commission (EC) within two weeks agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the August 1 notification issued by the poll panel allowing the NOTA option. It questioned the delay by the opposition party in filing its petition, pointing out that the poll panel had issued a notification on the matter in January 2014 and another circular in 2015.
“When it suited you, you did not come. You come here on the eve of elections,” the bench said. Senior advocates Kapil Sibal, A…
