NOTA votes: Public interest litigation in the Supreme Court to cancel the elections in the places where nota votes are recorded the most.
Voting is an important democratic duty of a citizen of a country. But there is no record of 100 percent voter turnout in the elections so far. Thus it is being urged that all those who are eligible to vote should vote.
Meanwhile, those who do not belong to the political party, those who do not have faith in politics, leaders and candidates, and those who do not like them say that they do not want to vote for anyone. to the note Voting has been on the rise lately.
None of the Above NOTE It was introduced in the electronic machine for the first time in 2013 as per the instructions of the Supreme Court. Since then the number of people voting for NOTA has been increasing. Nota has received more votes than the candidates in some places.
At present, Lok Sabha elections are being conducted in 7 phases, and in the Supreme Court to hold re-election in the places where NOTA gets more votes.A public interest litigation was filed by writer and speaker Shiv Khera.
If NOTA gets more votes than any of the candidates in that petition, the election should be declared void. He mentioned various rules to advertise NOTA as a fictitious candidate contesting the elections and demanded that the Election Commission should be directed to formulate guidelines for this.
The hearing on this case was held before a bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud. Then the judge said that this matter is about the election process. A notice was sent to the Election Commission to respond in this case, saying that we will see what the Election Commission has to say about this.
Meanwhile, the lawyer for the petitioner said that this issue is seen as an important issue. We all have seen what happened in Surat. He pointed out that the Congress candidate’s nomination was rejected and the BJP candidate was declared the winner without an election as other candidates withdrew.
