Congress expels its official Mathura mayoral poll candidate Shyam Sundar Upadhyay,
On Tuesday, Shyam Sundar Upadhyay alias Bittoo was named as a result of the official Congress candidate for the Mathura mayoral election. Now, in a surprising movement, the celebration has expelled him from its main membership for six years with fast influence, for his allegedly anti-party actions.
An announcement issued by the All India Congress Committee said, “Hon’ble Congress President has expelled Shri Shyam Sundar Upadhyay ‘Bittoo’ from the primary membership of the party, for six years, for his anti-party activities, with immediate effect.” Upadhyay has been expelled from the celebration to favour Raj Kumar Rawat, one different Congress candidate for the polls, who moreover filed a nomination beneath a Congress ticket for the same election.
Both Shyam Sundar Upadhyay and Raj Kumar Rawat had filed nominations with Congress tickets. But now Uttar Pradesh Congress State President Braj Lal Khabri has alleged that Shyam Sundar Upadhyay obtained the celebration’s ticket with out authorisation and used that to file the nomination for the election to the submit of Mayor of Mathura Vrindavan Municipal Corporation. According to the celebration, he utilized as a Congress candidate using stable paperwork.
Hon’ble Congress President has expelled Shri Shyam Sundar Upadhyay ‘Bittoo’ from the primary membership of the celebration, for six years, for his anti-party actions, with fast influence. pic.twitter.com/PzyYhBLshc
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The Congress celebration has educated that Raj Kumar Rawat could be its candidate for the elections. However, Shyam Sundar Upadhyay will nonetheless be thought-about the Congress candidate formally, and because of this truth Rawat could be thought-about an neutral candidate. Both the candidates had filed nominations with Congress tickets, nonetheless as Upadhyay filed his nomination first, he is the official celebration candidate.
Scrutiny of nomination papers was completed on Tuesday after the ultimate date for submitting nomination papers on Monday. After that, the Returning Officer thought-about Shyam Sundar Upadhyay Bittu as a result of the licensed candidate for Congress.
According to Vijai Shankar Dubey, Additional District Magistrate (ADM) and the election officer for the mayoral election, Raj Kumar Rawat will run for office as an neutral candidate, on May 4. He stated that Rawat and Upadhyay had obtained kind 7A from Brijlal Khabri, the top of the Uttar Pradesh Congress on April 16. He hadn’t, nonetheless, cancelled or withdrawn the form in the direction of anyone inside the allotted interval.
At 3 PM On April 17, the ultimate day of nomination, Brijlal Khabri cancelled the letter of the licensed candidate for Upadhyay nonetheless did not problem the authority letter in favour of the alternative candidate. But Upadhyay had already filed his nomination sooner than that, at spherical 11 AM, because of this truth the authority was official in the intervening time.
When a few candidate has been granted kind 7A, the one who recordsdata his nomination papers first is taken under consideration the official nominee of any celebration, as per the statutes governing the elections, reported the officer.
He remarked that because of Upadhyay submitted his nomination paperwork first, he was recognised as a result of the Congress’ official candidate. He educated that former BSP MLA Rawat, who simply recently switched to the Congress, will now should contest the election as an neutral.
Later the state Congress president wrote a letter to the returning officer saying that Raj Kumar Rawat is the official candidate of the Congress celebration. He moreover write that kind 7A submitted by Upadhyay was unauthorised. However, for the Election officers, it was not acceptable as a result of it acquired right here late, and because of this truth Upadhyay stays the official Congress celebration.
