Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan has moved the Supreme Court challenging the rejection of her nomination from Madhya Pradesh for the June 18 Rajya Sabha election.Her petition is likely to be mentioned for an urgent hearing today. A former Lok Sabha MP from Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, Natarajan is currently the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in-charge of Telangana.Natarajan’s candidature was rejected on June 9 by Returning Officer and Madhya Pradesh Assembly Principal Secretary Arvind Sharma following objections raised by BJP leaders Mahesh Kewat (a BJP Rajya Sabha candidate) and Rahul Kothari, who alleged that her election affidavit did not disclose details of a case pending before an Additional Judicial Magistrate in Hyderabad.The complaint filed by a former Congress worker, A Srilatha, in 2025 made allegations of molestation against a man and accused Natarajan and others of failing to take action as senior party functionaries despite repeated complaints.The Returning Officer’s order noted that Natarajan had responded to a notice issued by a Hyderabad court in October 2025 but did not mention the matter in Form 26 submitted with her nomination papers. Sharma rejected her candidature, holding that her affidavit was incomplete. Congress contended that the rejection was legally unsustainable as no criminal case existed against Natarajan, since no court has yet taken cognisance of the private complaint filed against her, and that a pre-cognisance notice did not constitute a pending criminal case requiring mandatory disclosure.However, BJP leaders told the Returning Officer that the Supreme Court’s guidelines on mandatory disclosure required all candidates to declare pending criminal cases in their affidavits accompanying nomination papers, and that Natarajan’s non-disclosure went against the top court’s mandatory guidelines.The rejection of Natarajan’s nomination papers effectively ruled out Congress from the contest for one of the three Rajya Sabha seats from Madhya Pradesh for June 18 Rajya Sabha elections.