VP polls : Ansari, Jaswant to slug it out
Source: The Sangai Express / Press Trust of India
New Delhi, July 21 2012:
Stage is set for a direct fight between UPA nominee Hamid Ansari and his NDA counterpart Jaswant Singh for the Vice-President's post as their nomination papers were accepted during scrutiny on Saturday.
The nomination papers of 29 others were rejected on various grounds for failing to meet the requirements.
"A total of 42 papers were filed (by 31 candidates) during the 14-day nomination process four sets of papers submitted by Ansari and three sets submitted by Singh were accepted," returning officer for the Vice Presidential election and Lok Sabha secretary general TK Viswanathan said after the scrutiny.
Though the scrutiny took place on Saturday morning, four nomination papers were rejected forthwith for failing to comply with the basic requirement of attaching a certified copy of the entry relating to the candidate of the parliamentary constituency he/she is registered in.
Viswanathan said almost all the candidates, whose papers were rejected, represented that "honest" people find it difficult to find 20 MPs to propose and as many to second their nomination.