Court takes cognizance against Deputy Mayor of AMC

Jaipur | Sunday | 22nd July, 2018

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Meanwhile congress has not taken up the issue in public against the BJP, before the imminent state assembly elections. Mayor Gahlot is known as a candidate of state education minister Vasudev Devnani, from Ajmer north state assembly constituency and therefore state women and child welfare minister Anita Bhadel, who is from Ajmer south assembly constituency, fought to make Sampat the deputy mayor. The issue about Sampat’s qualification has heated up politics between the two factions in the BJP, as it has made one of the groups weaker. AJMER: The court here on Saturday took cognizance against deputy mayor and BJP leader Sampat Sankhla for deliberately cheating the electoral agency by giving false information of his education qualification while filing his nomination for corporator in Municipal Corporation elections.The court issued summon against Sampat to appear in the court as an accused on the next date and directed prosecution to initiate trial against him. Advocate Vivek Parashar said that now it is upto congress or the former candidate to challenge the election of Sampat and to get his election cancelled.According to Parashar, Sampat fought two local elections in 2010 and in 2016 showing his education qualification as class X pass..