NEW DELHI: Delhi lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay on Monday moved the Supreme Court for empowering the Election Commission to reject nominations of contesting candidates and de-register the political parties for seeking votes in the basis of religion, race, caste, community or language.
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He also urged the court to declare misquoting of the judicial orders and directions by the contesting candidates and office-bearers of political parties (as done by Rahul Gandhi) for electoral gain as a corrupt practice. He also called for directions to the Centre to ascertain feasibility of implementing recommendations of the Law Commission in its 267th report on hate speech.
