Prashant Kishore reacts to the candidacy crisis of former Army officer Lt Gen SK Singh in Jhansu, Bihar’s Tarari assembly seat Jansuraj announced candidate. He said how can the citizenship of an officer like Siachen who protects the country be questioned?
Prashant Kishore claimed that everything belonging to Lieutenant General SK Singh was in Kalat village of Bhojpur. In the last Assembly elections, his name also appeared in the electoral list in Bihar, but in the last Lok Sabha elections, he voted in Delhi. His name appears in Delhi’s electoral roll.
We will go to court: PK
He said it was a very strange rule that a citizen of Bihar could not contest the election as he was a voter of another state. We are working hard to resolve this issue. We will fight this in court.
Let us tell you that Jamsuraj has declared former Army officer Lieutenant General SK Singh as the candidate for Tharari Assembly constituency. Lieutenant General SK Singh is a native of Kalat village in Bhojpur district, but after retiring from the army, he has lived with his family in Delhi for a long time. Therefore, his name does not appear in any voter list. Bihar. He is currently a Delhi elector and that is why his candidature is at stake.
At the same time, these seats are in the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the NDA alliance. From there, the BJP issued a ticket to Vishal Prashant aka Sushil Pandey. He is expected to file his nomination on Tuesday.
what are the rules
According to the rules, anyone who wants to stand for election to the Legislative Council must have his or her name included in the state’s electoral roll. Therefore, for candidacy in the Lok Sabha elections, one must have a name in the electorate list of any state in the country.
By-elections for four seats will be held
By-elections will be held in Belaganj, Imamganj, Ramgarh and Tarari seats in Bihar. Voting for these seats will be held on November 13. On the same day, the first phase of voting was also held in Jharkhand.
