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The Supreme Court connected Friday (June 12, 2026) dismissed a plea filed by Congress person Meenakshi Natarajan challenging the rejection of her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha predetermination successful Madhya Pradesh.
A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and A.S. Chandurkar observed that Article 329 of the Constitution bars judicial interference erstwhile the information of a campaigner is rejected by the returning officer.
The Bench held that the due remedy laic earlier the Election Commission .“...if this petition is entertained, this tribunal would beryllium speechmaking immoderate rule which is not provided nether Article 329 of the Constitution,” the Bench said.
“If the tribunal accepts arguments to find retired glaring cases which are required to beryllium interfered nether Article 32/226, and the different sets of cases, wherever the rejection is not truthful improper prima facie to relegate them to predetermination petitions, this tribunal would beryllium speechmaking immoderate rule which is not provided for nether Article 329.
“We are afraid, that immoderate specified mentation that successful immoderate of the matters this Court tin interfere portion leaving immoderate others to avail the remedy of predetermination tribunal cannot beryllium encouraged,” the seat said.
The Court, however, clarified that its observations connected the rejection of Ms. Natarajan’s information would not prejudice immoderate predetermination petition that whitethorn beryllium instituted earlier the jurisdictional High Court.
(With PTI inputs)
