Election Commission Orders CBDT To Examine Any “Mismatch” In Rajeev Chandrashekhar, the Leader of the BJP,’s Affidavit Details
New Delhi: According to reports, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has been instructed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to confirm any discrepancies in the affidavit information provided by Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar, the BJP candidate running for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat.
The Indian National Congress (INC) had complained to the ECI about a discrepancy between Rajeev Chandrashekhar’s claimed and real assets in his affidavit.
ECI today instructed CBDT to review the affidavit and confirm any discrepancies in accordance with protocol.
Section 125A of the RP Act 1951 is the provision that applies to any mismatch or fabrication of the affidavit.
On Thursday, Rajeev Chandrasekhar submitted his candidacy for the next Lok Sabha elections.
The Union Minister expressed confidence in the support of the Thiruvananthapuram people prior to registering his candidacy.
Serving my hometown of Thiruvananthapuram is a major step forward, and I appreciate everyone’s support and well wishes. Thiruvananthapuram’s citizens will make the final decision, and Chandrashekhar expressed confidence that they want a change and an MP who can carry it out.
In the approaching Lok Sabha elections, Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram parliamentary constituency will include candidates from the BJP, Congress, and left parties in a “three-cornered fight.”
The CPM-led LDF has put up CPI politician Pannyan Raveendran, who had won the seat in 2005, while the Congress has put up its current Member of Parliament, Shashi Tharoor, from the constituency. The BJP has nominated Rajeev Chandrashekhar.
Twenty legislators from Kerala, one of the few states where the Congress is still heavily represented, are sent to the Lok Sabha.
Since 2009, Shashi Tharoor, a senior Congress politician and former Union minister, has been the winner of the Thiruvananthapuram seat. On Wednesday, he submitted his candidacy from the Keralan seat of Thiruvananthapuram. Kerala has never seen a Lok Sabha seat won by the BJP. Only once, in the Thiruvananthapuram district’s Nemam, did the party win an Assembly seat, after O Rajagopal’s victory there in 2016.
But with Chandrasekhar entering the city, the fight has become a triangle, and it will be one of the most closely followed contests in the next Lok Sabha elections.
All 20 seats in the South Indian state will be up for election in the 2024 Lok Sabha on April 26, with vote counting to follow on June 4.
Kummanam Rajasekharan of the BJP received the most votes (31.3%) of any candidate in the state’s 20 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 elections.
In the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, the United Democratic Front (UDF), headed by the Congress, secured 19 out of 20 seats. The Indian Union Muslim League, the Revolutionary Socialist Party, and the Kerala Congress (M) all gained seats in addition to the Congress’s fifteen seats.
