New Delhi:
The Election Commission today rejected Team Sangma's demand to re-examine Pranab Mukherjee's nomination for the President poll. BJP-backed Mr Sangma's election team had objected to the Returning Officer VK Agnihotri accepting Mr Mukherjee's nomination.
A technical objection to Mr Mukherjee's nomination made by Team Sangma had been rejected by Mr Agnihotri, who had scrutinised and accepted Mr Mukherjee's nomination papers on July 3.
Mr Sangma's election agent and BJD member of Parliament Bhartrihari Mahatab had sought that Mr Mukherjee, the Congress-led UPA's candidate for the President poll, be disqualified from the race as, he claimed, he held an office of profit as Chairman of the Indian Statistical Institute on the day that he filed his nomination papers last month.
Team Mukherjee had said this is "factually incorrect," and Mr Mukherjee had submitted a copy of his resignation letter to the institute dated June 20, in a written reply on the objection made.
The letter was also signed by the President of the Kolkata-based institute, MGK Menon with a handwritten notation that says "accepted." The BJP had said the copy of Mr Mukherjee's resignation letter is a fabricated one and Mr Mukherjee's signature on it is not genuine.
A technical objection to Mr Mukherjee's nomination made by Team Sangma had been rejected by Mr Agnihotri, who had scrutinised and accepted Mr Mukherjee's nomination papers on July 3.
Mr Sangma's election agent and BJD member of Parliament Bhartrihari Mahatab had sought that Mr Mukherjee, the Congress-led UPA's candidate for the President poll, be disqualified from the race as, he claimed, he held an office of profit as Chairman of the Indian Statistical Institute on the day that he filed his nomination papers last month.
Team Mukherjee had said this is "factually incorrect," and Mr Mukherjee had submitted a copy of his resignation letter to the institute dated June 20, in a written reply on the objection made.
The letter was also signed by the President of the Kolkata-based institute, MGK Menon with a handwritten notation that says "accepted." The BJP had said the copy of Mr Mukherjee's resignation letter is a fabricated one and Mr Mukherjee's signature on it is not genuine.
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