Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been a deputy for Varanasi twice.
Highlight
- A bench of three judges supported the decision of the Allahabad High Court
- A fired BSF jawan, Tej Bahadur Yadav, had petitioned the court
- Tej Bahadur was fired from BSF in 2017 after sharing a clip online
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court today rejected a challenge to the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a deputy last year from the Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh.
A fired Border Security Force (BSF) Jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav, who wanted to dispute against Prime Minister Modi but did not do so after his documents were rejected by the Election Commission, had petitioned the court.
A three-judge bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justice AS Bopanna and Justice V Ramasubramanian dismissed their statement, supporting the Allahabad High Court decision to do so.
The Allahabad High Court had previously dismissed BSF jawan’s dismissed petition against the rejection of its nomination papers by the Election Commission on May 1 last year, before the national elections.
Tej Bahadur had argued in the Supreme Court that he had submitted his nomination as an independent candidate and then as a candidate for the Varanasi Samajwadi Party. The electoral body rejected his nomination for “reasons beyond his control,” he alleged.
Tej Bahadur was fired from the BSF in 2017 after he posted a video online complaining about the quality of food served to front-line troops stationed in Jammu and Kashmir.
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