Swamy to move court on EC’s Congress decision
9 Nov 2012 4:47 AM IST
Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday decided to move court challenging the Election Commission’s decision rejecting his petition for de-recognition of Congress.
He shot off a letter to the commission a day after it dismissed his petition for de-recongition of Congress on the ground that the party violated laws by providing a Rs 90 crore loan to Associates Journals which ran the now-defunct National Herald newspaper.
Maintaining that he was not given an opportunity to present his case from a legal point of view, he said EC must realize that it has not only to dispense justice as a tribunal but they must be seen to have dispensed justice. ‘In my petition that was before you regarding which you have washed off your hands of conducting an inquiry, and through the motivated leaks to the newspapers in advance of the view you took on my petition. ‘...the EC has in fact suffered a serious loss of credibility amongst the people. I shall now have to settle the issues in Court,’ he said.
Seeking to find fault with EC’s decision, he said the commission has ‘essentially washed off’ its hands by stating that it has no power to de-recognise a party for violating Section 29A-C of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 and there was a need for hearings before taking a final call.
‘Hence this is an arguable point of law on which you ought to have conducted hearings and heard both sides,’ he said.
He shot off a letter to the commission a day after it dismissed his petition for de-recongition of Congress on the ground that the party violated laws by providing a Rs 90 crore loan to Associates Journals which ran the now-defunct National Herald newspaper.
Maintaining that he was not given an opportunity to present his case from a legal point of view, he said EC must realize that it has not only to dispense justice as a tribunal but they must be seen to have dispensed justice. ‘In my petition that was before you regarding which you have washed off your hands of conducting an inquiry, and through the motivated leaks to the newspapers in advance of the view you took on my petition. ‘...the EC has in fact suffered a serious loss of credibility amongst the people. I shall now have to settle the issues in Court,’ he said.
Seeking to find fault with EC’s decision, he said the commission has ‘essentially washed off’ its hands by stating that it has no power to de-recognise a party for violating Section 29A-C of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 and there was a need for hearings before taking a final call.
‘Hence this is an arguable point of law on which you ought to have conducted hearings and heard both sides,’ he said.
Next Story
