Jairam Ramesh 'misses' EC meet after 2-person cap alters Congress plan

NEW DELHI: Though Election Commission had specifically invited lone enactment heads, on with different idiosyncratic authorised by the enactment head, for Wednesday's multi-party gathering sought by an AICC counsel to sermon the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of Bihar's electoral roll, conscionable 4 of the 11 parties sent anterior confirmation of their information and lone 2 had their enactment heads successful attendance.No confirmation email for the July 2 gathering - offered by the canvass sheet successful effect to the June 30 missive from AICC counsel Omar Hoda seeking an "urgent meeting" connected behalf of 10 parties - was received from the remaining 7 parties, including Congress, DMK, TMC, Samajwadi Party, NCP-SP and JMM. Shiv Sena (UBT) was portion of the 11-party INDIA delegation but was not mentioned successful the AICC email to EC.Congress, which aboriginal expressed unhappiness with EC's two-person invitation limit, arrived astatine Nirvachan Sadan connected Wednesday with a squad of 6-7 members.

However, it yet honoured EC's telephone to restrict the nominees to 2 persons, choosing Abhishek Singhvi and Bihar PCC main Rajesh Kumar to correspond the enactment successful the discussion. Other Congress members similar Jairam Ramesh and Pawan Khera had to beryllium out. EC sources said the determination to support them retired and nonstop Singhvi and Kumar alternatively was "entirely betwixt members of the Congress delegation", since the enactment president had not nominated anybody.

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Out of a full of 14 persons who attended the meeting, determination were heads of 2 parties - CPI and CPI(ML) Liberation - and 5 others authorised to be by their respective enactment heads, which included 2 each from RJD and CPM and 1 from CPI (ML) Liberation. The remaining 7 participants had nary authorisation from the heads of their governmental parties, including the Congress president," said an EC functionary."Some of the participants were fixed an assignment by EC, and others were allowed to articulation successful without immoderate anterior appointment. Still the Commission decided to conscionable 2 representatives from each enactment to perceive their views," an EC serviceman told TOI.During the meeting, the parties were briefed by EC connected the SIR guidelines, which the second said were strictly successful conformity with Article 326 of the Constitution and provisions of R P Act, 1950. The parties were urged to name much BLAs, already numbering astir 1.5 lakh, and enactment intimately with artifact level officers during the rotation revision.