Uttarakhand: Rajni Rawat barred from contesting after EC order

  • | Wednesday | 20th March, 2019

According to the order, the leaders cannot contest polls between 2017 and 2022.A supporter of Rawat had on Monday collected nomination forms as she was planning to contest as an independent from Tehri . Rawat, who had contested for the post of mayor of Dehradun as an AAP candidate last year, said she has furnished all details before the commission on Tuesday and is confident that she would be allowed to contest the forthcoming polls. DEHRADUN: Transgender leader Rajni Rawat’s bid to contest the Lok Sabha elections was stalled by the election commission after it emerged that she had been barred from contesting for six years following her failure to furnish election expenditure details in 2017 assembly polls.Rawat had contested from Raipur seat in 2017 but failed to furnish expenditure details to the election commission following which the EC banned her and 110 other leaders in the state last month from contesting elections.

DEHRADUN: Transgender leader Rajni Rawat’s bid to contest the Lok Sabha elections was stalled by the election commission after it emerged that she had been barred from contesting for six years following her failure to furnish election expenditure details in 2017 assembly polls.Rawat had contested from Raipur seat in 2017 but failed to furnish expenditure details to the election commission following which the EC banned her and 110 other leaders in the state last month from contesting elections. According to the order, the leaders cannot contest polls between 2017 and 2022.A supporter of Rawat had on Monday collected nomination forms as she was planning to contest as an independent from Tehri . Rawat, who had contested for the post of mayor of Dehradun as an AAP candidate last year, said she has furnished all details before the commission on Tuesday and is confident that she would be allowed to contest the forthcoming polls.

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