LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Dumka, May 6: The JMM MLA from Dumka, Basant Soren, has denied having received any notice from the Election Commission (EC) pertaining to the violation of the people’s representation act allegedly committed by him and his elder brother, Chief Minister Hemant Soren.
Refuting the media reports published on Friday which stated that the EC notice was delivered to him at his Bokaro-based residence on Thursday. Basant, who claims to have been in Ranchi on Friday, said he did not get any such notice from any agency as yet.
Reports, however suggest that Basant has been given the May 12 deadline for submitting his reply to the EC having asked why the process of his disqualification should not be initiated for violating section 9 of the people’s representation act of 1951.
“I am presently in Ranchi and have not yet found any such notice in my hand,” Basant said over phone on Friday pleading ignorance about any such move of the EC against his candidature.
“How can I submit anything about my response without getting the notice in my hand?” he added when asked about his course of action on the EC notice.
The Chief Minister, on the other hand, has already been served the EC notice pertaining to the similar allegations of violating the people’s representation act with the rumours about his possible resignation going the rounds.
Basant made his electoral debut from Dumka in the by-election in 2020 after his elder brother Hemant Soren vacated the seat and opted to represent Barhet assembly seat which he had simultaneously contested and won in the last assembly elections.
