{"id":104230,"date":"2017-08-19T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T09:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=104230"},"modified":"2017-08-19T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T09:20:24","slug":"ahmed-patels-election-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/ahmed-patels-election-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmed Patels election in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Balwantsinh Rajput, the BJP candidate who lost to Congress leader Ahmed Patel in the Gujarat Rajya Sabha elections earlier this month, has challenged the Election Commission&#8217;s decision to invalidate the votes of two rebel Congress MLAs who had voted for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104231 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sonia-gandhi-ahmed-patel_1b11b96a-7cc2-11e7-a713-31f90463e8eb.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmed Patels election in court \" width=\"603\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sonia-gandhi-ahmed-patel_1b11b96a-7cc2-11e7-a713-31f90463e8eb.jpg 960w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sonia-gandhi-ahmed-patel_1b11b96a-7cc2-11e7-a713-31f90463e8eb-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/sonia-gandhi-ahmed-patel_1b11b96a-7cc2-11e7-a713-31f90463e8eb-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The decision helped Ahmed Patel scrape through; he won exactly the number of votes he needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Gujarat High Court will on Monday hear Mr Rajput&#8217;s petition demanding that Mr Patel&#8217;s election be set aside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-104232 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/amit-shah-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmed Patels election in court \" width=\"611\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr Rajput has also accused Ahmed Patel of &#8220;corrupt practices&#8221; for flying out 44 Congress legislators to Bengaluru just ahead of the elections to prevent defections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Balwantsinh Rajput was a senior leader of the Congress till days before the Rajya Sabha election when he quit the party and hours later joined the BJP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balwantsinh Rajput, the BJP candidate who lost to Congress leader Ahmed Patel in the Gujarat Rajya Sabha elections earlier this month, has challenged the Election Commission&#8217;s decision to invalidate the votes of two rebel Congress MLAs who had voted for him. 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