The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a petition by Trinamool Congress leader Aalo Rani Sarkar challenging the election results of Bangaon South constituency in the 2021 West Bengal elections on the ground that her name is also in the electoral roll in neighboring Bangladesh.
The government lost the election to BJP’s Swapna Majumdar by over 2,000 votes and challenged the election result in the Calcutta High Court. Dismissing his plea, the High Court on Friday said that the government cannot declare itself as an Indian citizen as the laws of India do not allow dual citizenship.
A single bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary also asked Election Commission to take necessary action against the TMC leader based on his citizenship status.
“The court has come to the conclusion that the petitioner, claiming to be a citizen of India, had filed an election petition. He filed nomination papers as a citizen of India. He contested the elections as a citizen of India. But from the documents filed and relied upon by the petitioner in his opposition affidavit, it is revealed that in the month of June 2021, his application for deletion of his name from the electoral roll of Bangladesh was pending before the appropriate authority. of the Election Commission of Bangladesh,” in a report Indian Express Excerpted from the verdict.
On Saturday, Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Twitter cited the Calcutta HC’s decision to accuse the ruling TMC of “helping illegal Bangladeshi migrants to settle” in the state.
“TMC has outdone itself this time!!! … The TMC leader is known for helping illegal Bangladeshi migrants to settle in West Bengal and obtain voter ID cards to increase their voter base. But selecting a candidate who is not even an Indian is unprecedented,” said the official, who defeated the chief minister. Mamata Banerjee In the assembly elections from Nandigram, said.
Swapan Majumdar in 2021 WB assembly elections @BJP4Bengal Won Bongaon South assembly seat by defeating Ki Aalo Rani Sarkar @AITCofficial,
Dissatisfied with the result, the AITC candidate, like its Supreme Leader, filed an election petition challenging the election result. pic.twitter.com/2wVopNDM4L– Suvendu Adhikari • ারী (@SuvenduWB) 21 May 2022
The BJP leader said that he is expecting action from the Election Commission on the issue.
According to a report in Hindustan TimesThe lawyers of BJP’s Swapna Majumdar told the court that the petitioner’s husband Dr Harendra Nath Sarkar was a professor of medicine at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College in Barisal, Bangladesh. The respondent also reportedly showed the court a copy of the alleged Bangladeshi National Identity Card of Alo Rani Sarkar.
Meanwhile, government lawyers reportedly told the court that she was born in Bengal’s Hooghly district in 1969 and became a Bangladeshi citizen after marriage in 1980. He said that she returned to India. India After separating from her husband.
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