NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday sought a change of Seat Because of the hearing of her Request challenging the Success of BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari out of Nandigram.
Mamata’s request, filed in Calcutta high court was delegated to Justice Kausik Chanda and was adjourned until June 24.
In a letter to the secretary of the acting Chief Justice, the principal minister’s counselor expressed apprehension regarding the Probability of prejudice on the part of the judge worried because Mamata”had flocked into the affirmation of the Hon’ble Judge as a powerful Judge of the Hon’ble High Court in Calcutta.” Assuming that Mamata Banerjee was made aware that Justice Kausik Chanda has been”an energetic part of the BJP” and because the adjudication of this election request will have political consequences, it’s been hypothesized the issue be delegated to some other judge from the acting Chief Justice, who’s the master of rosterthe letter said.
Mamata’s counsel urged the correspondence be put prior to the acting Chief Justice forthwith”for essential re-assignment of Election Petition in order to prevent any bias and/or presumption of bias”.
A part of lawyers staged a demonstration before the large court over Justice Chanda being delegated to listen to the election request from the Trinamool Congress supremo.
“We don’t have any private ill-feeling or allegation from the judge, however, he had been associated with a specific political party,” among the attorneys said.
The judge must recuse himself from hearing Banerjee’s request, he further added.
Calcutta high court constitutes four election petitions from TMC candidatesMeanwhile, after to Mamata’s nod, four additional Trinamool leaders, that dropped the meeting elections, even together with the Calcutta high court.
Their pleas were discovered earlier four unique chairs of this high court.
Tough the election of BJP’s Biswanath Karak out of Goghat, TMC candidate Manas Majumdar transferred the high court.
Justice Suvra Ghosh, imagining that the existence of the petitioner in person prior to the court from virtual manner, led the issuance of notice on the respondents and also fixed the issue for hearing on July 9.
Maintaining Shantiram Mahato’s request against BJP’s Baneswar Mahato, that had been declared winner from the EC from Balarampur,” Justice Subhasis Dasgupta reported the issue would be taken up for hearing on July 15.
The court directed the impending conclusion in the case, the records, election newspapers and apparatus connected together with all the surveys under question be maintained from the concerned jurisdiction.
Justice Bibek Chaudhuri, hearing the following request by TMC candidate Alo Rani Sarkar hard the election of BJP’s Swapan Majumdar by Bongaon Dakshin, stated that the notice be issued within a couple of months from the date of the order, requesting him to distribute affidavit-in-opposition, if any.
The issue will show up in the record on July 16.
Launched in TMC candidate Sangram Kumar Dolai’s petition demanding the election of Ashoke Dinda out of Moyna was adjourned from Justice Tirthankar Ghosh into June 25, once the issue is going to soon be taken up for hearing.” (With inputs from PTI)
