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Meenakshi Natarajan's Challenge to Rajya Sabha Nomination Rejection

Thursday, June 11, 2026
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Meenakshi Natarajan's Challenge to Rajya Sabha Nomination Rejection

Meenakshi Natarajan, a Congress leader , is now pushing things to the Supreme Court . She’s challenging why her nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections from Madhya Pradesh was rejected. Polling for those three seats is set for June 18th.

The whole thing has been messy since June 9th. The Returning Officer basically threw out her candidature then. This happened because some BJP leaders , like Mahesh Kewat and Rahul Kothari, had objections. They felt something was missing from the paperwork.

It all boiled down to a complaint linked to Telangana. A matter that supposedly went through court in Hyderabad back in 2025.

The BJP’s argument was pretty sharp. They claimed she didn't tell everyone about this pending case in her nomination papers. It was part of the affidavit they submitted.

But here’s where it gets weird. The Returning Officer basically said Natarajan had responded to a notice from a Hyderabad court, sure. But she hadn't mentioned that specific matter in Form 26. That’s what led to the rejection. An incomplete filing.

Congress leaders immediately pushed back hard. They argued there was zero criminal case against her. No court had even looked at the private complaint the BJP kept bringing up. It felt completely baseless.

They are saying this whole thing is just political noise, an overreach.

A delegation of top Congress figures actually went straight to the Election Commission. They demanded the poll body reverse the decision immediately. They called the rejection "completely egregious," "blatant," and "patently unlawful."

K C Venugopal, Randeep Surjewala, Jairam Ramesh, Deepa Dasmunshi, Vivek Tankha, Abhishek Manu Singhvi plus Natarajan herself they met with the EC. The core argument was that the Returning Officer’s decision just didn't stand up legally for whatever reason it had.

Later, after that meeting, things got a bit clearer, sort of. Abhishek Manu Singhvi spoke out. He said the whole rejection came from a simple misunderstanding.

“The basis for rejecting her,” he put it, “was this misconception that some criminal case was pending against her, which she didn't mention.”

He added that the irony is that there isn’t actually any criminal case established in law. There was nothing to disclose. That’s what he meant by the real issue being missed.

The BJP side , though, kept pushing their line. They argued that Supreme Court guidelines on election disclosures are strict. Candidates have to declare everything pending. Natarajan’s omission, they insisted, violated those rules.

So now it’s stuck. The rejection means Congress is effectively out of the running for one of those Rajya Sabha spots in Madhya Pradesh. Natarajan, remember, she's the Congress Telangana in-charge right now. This whole dispute about old complaints and disclosure rules just hangs over that position. It’s all very tangled up.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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