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Early times report
Jammu, MAR 4- Harsh Dev Singh, MLA and Leader of the Panthers Legislature Party, today presented an election petition to the Registrar of the High Court of J&K at Jammu challenging the constitutionality of holding three biennial elections for four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir. He was accompanied by H.C. Jalmeria, Counsel for the petitioner. Harsh Dev Singh, in his petition, has prayed to declare three biennial election notices to elect four Rajya Sabha Members as illegal, unconstitutional, improper and malafide on the grounds that all the four seats fell vacant in the same period i.e. November, 2008 and all the four Rajya Sabha Members were to be elected for a period of six years by the same Electoral College. He said in his petition that all of them fell in the same category and the Election Commission of India has connived with the ruling Congress and National Conference by issuing three separate notifications to elect four Rajya Sabha Members to benefit the ruling alliance and deny the opposition to get the benefit of the system of proportional representation by the single transferable vote which is guaranteed under Article 80(4) of the Constitution of India and other provisions of the Constitution and the Representation of People Act, 1951. The Panthers Party leader has prayed that till the final disposal of the petition by the High Court all the four Rajya Sabha Members from Jammu and Kashmir who were elected unconstitutionally should be restrained from participation in the proceedings of Rajya Sabha.
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