Lok Sabha polls: Mumbai North West candidate moves Bombay HC against Shiv Sena leader’s victory
Candidates had earlier alleged irregularities in the counting process in the constituency, which was won by the Eknath Shinde-led faction’s Ravindra Waikar.
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A candidate who contested the Mumbai North-West seat in the recently concluded Lok Sabha election has moved the Bombay High Court seeking it to declare the results from the constituency as null and void, the Hindustan Times reported on Saturday.
The candidate, Bharat Shah of the Hindu Samaj Party, has alleged malpractices in the counting of votes. He has sought direction to the Election Commission to investigate the alleged irregularities.
Ravindra Waikar from Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena won the Mumbai North-West seat by defeating Amol Kirtikar of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on June 4. This was the closest contest in the general election.
However, after the results, Kirtikar as well as other candidates from the seat alleged irregularities in the counting process.
A newspaper report claimed that the brother-in-law of Waikar, Mangesh Pandilkar, had taken a phone to the vote counting centre on June 4 that was “used for generating the OTP [one-time password] that unlocked the EVM [Electronic Voting Machine] machine”.
On June 12, the Mumbai Police filed a case against Pandilkar for allegedly taking a phone to a counting centre. However, the returning officer of the Mumbai North-West Lok Sabha constituency on June 16 said that no one-time password was needed to unlock an Electronic Voting Machine.
In his petition on Friday, Shah claimed that Kirtikar was initially in the lead...
