Until early Wednesday, the EC declaration of the outcomes was anticipated. However, there was word that BJP's Amit Shah and Smriti Irani had won. At 1.50 am, Congress pioneer Ahmed Patel tweeted "Satyamev Jayate," saying he had won. "Cash, muscle and control couldn't win... BJP can break a couple of frail Congress MLAs yet BJP can't break the Congress party," said Congress pioneer P Chidambaram.
In an emotional unforeseen development Tuesday in the high stakes Rajya Sabha races in Gujarat, the Election Commission of India (ECI) conjured Article 324 of the Constitution to renounce the choice of its Returning Officer (RO) in the state and announce invalid the votes cast by two Congress MLAs.
Until early Wednesday, the EC declaration of the outcomes was anticipated. Yet, there was word that BJP's Amit Shah and Smriti Irani had won. At 1.50 am, Congress pioneer Ahmed Patel tweeted "Satyamev Jayate," saying he had won. "Cash, muscle and control couldn't win… BJP can break a couple of powerless Congress MLAs however BJP can't break the Congress party," said Congress pioneer P Chidambaram. The survey board's intercession was incited by a Congress protest that two of its MLAs, Bhola Bhai Gohel and Raghavji Bhai Patel, had turned revolt and damaged Rule 39A and Rule 39AA under the Conduct of Elections Rules 1961 by uncovering their decision to an unapproved individual, other than the gathering's race specialist.
The EC considered the video film of the two officials throwing their votes and discovered legitimacy in the Congress dissension. Renouncing the RO's choice, the Election Commission at 11.25 pm requested that the votes cast by the two MLAs be dismissed by isolating the vote papers worried at the season of checking.
In its eight-page arrange, the Commission dismissed the BJP conflict that the "Commission has no power" and the RO is the statutory specialist for surveying and numbering. The Commission attested that it was inside its privilege "to act in those vacuous ranges where either the law made by Parliament is noiseless or makes lacking arrangement to manage a circumstance in the lead of decision".
Negating the votes of the two Congress MLAs, the Commission spelt out the modalities. "Such isolation should be possible at the season of checking with reference to the serial quantities of the ticket papers issued to the voters worried according to the record kept up on the counter thwarts of polls papers under Rule 38A," the Commission said. The request is critical, EC sources revealed to The Indian Express, in light of the fact that the Commission once in a while negates its RO in such cases.
The advancements postponed the including procedure and the decisions Gujarat moved to the EC central command in New Delhi where top pioneers of the BJP and Congress started plummeting. A grasp of Union Ministers and previous priests — some of them driving legitimate illuminating presences — alternated to meet the Election Commissioners with their contentions and counter-contentions.
Albeit Chief Election Commissioner A K Joti and Election Commissioner O P Rawat met the two designations twice, the Commission turned down solicitations for a third meeting since they required time to consider and settle on a convenient choice on the numbering of votes. The political dramatization started around 5.30 pm with Congress' Randeep Surjewala and previous Union Minister R P N Singh moving toward the Election Commission, requesting suppress of votes of Gohil and Patel. The Congress asserted that the two voted and demonstrated their vote papers to people other than the approved Congress specialist, which is an infringement of the lead of decision rules.
The BJP reacted the following hour. At first, the gathering wanted to send Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi. Be that as it may, by 6.40 pm, when the BJP designation arrived, it was driven by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and furthermore had Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, his lesser P Choudhary and Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. At that point came a volley of articulations. Addressing columnists outside the EC base camp, Prasad said the clergymen had "asked for EC to dismiss Congress' request as once votes are thrown, at that point there is no hope and the procedure was reasonable". The Law Minister, who said he was there as a BJP pioneer, addressed why the Congress had not whined before. "Since morning, Congress has been asserting a win. Presently with vanquish gazing in their face, they are making frantic endeavors," he said.
As indicated by Piyush Goyal, the choice of the directing officers was last. On the off chance that neither they (Congress) nor decision eyewitnesses protested it when votes were thrown, at that point the votes can't be addressed now, he stated, and requested that "the numbering of votes ought to be done promptly and the outcomes proclaimed".
However, the Congress came back with its pioneers drove by previous Home Minister P Chidambaram. Refering to points of reference, Chidambaram contended that those tally papers ought to be rejected. "The latest point of reference was in Haryana on June 11, 2016. On that day, in the race to the Rajya Sabha, a Congress MLA's vote was dismissed on the ground that the tally paper had been seen by a man other than the approved individual. There was another point of reference in 2000 in Rajasthan where an autonomous MLA's tally paper was dismissed on the ground that it was seen by a man other than the approved individual," he said.
"On the off chance that the BJP is so sure of winning the race, at that point it must comply with the law. What's more, the law is clear. On the off chance that the tally is seen by a man other than the approved individual, at that point it is obligated to be rejected. The BJP was recipient of this law on June 11, 2016. How has law changed in one year? These two vote papers must be rejected," Chidambaram said.
The Congress defended its second visit on the ground that the BJP was endeavoring to scare the Commission by sending senior clergymen in the gathering's assignment. The BJP assignment came back to request that the EC should begin the numbering procedure instantly. "Since free and reasonable race occurred," Naqvi announced. Prasad said that the Congress' assertions "have no substance and they are giving incorrectly points of reference". Surjewala and R P N Singh were back at the EC around 9 pm for the third time, trailed by the BJP group. Prasad stated: "Congress can't put undue weight on EC. In the event that Congress party goes to EC the third time, so will we." Finally, the EC needed to state it would not meet more appointments and it would declare its choice soon.
