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Madras HC order not a setback for me, but for petitioner: Chidambaram | Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday said that the Madras High Court's order on a case pertaining to the validity of his election, in 2009, from the Sivaganga parliamentary constituency in Tamil Nadu, was not a setback for him, but a setback for the petitioner. He said that
there were 111 such petitions pending in court against members of the Lok Sabha
and the Election Commissionof India . On Thursday, the Madras High Court refused
to entirely strike off an election petition filed by AIADMK's losing candidate
R S Raja Kannappan. After having lost the election by a narrow margin of over
3500 votes, Raja Kannapan filed the election petition leveling several allegations
of malpractice against Chidambaram. In his petition, Raja Kannappan claimed that
Chidambaram had mobilized funds from various banks to spend on poll campaign.
Chidambaram's preliminary objection petition to reject the election petition at
an initial stage itself failed last year. Later, he filed a strike-off petition.
Had he succeeded, it would have spared him the rigor of the trial such as appearing
in the court and getting into the box. On Thursday, Justice K Venkataraman dismissed
the strike-off petition but directed deletion of two specific paragraphs in Raja
Kannappan's petition containing allegations that the bank funds were used in contesting
the elections. Kannappan, in his petition filed on June 25, 2009, had alleged
that Chidambaram's election 'deserved' to be declared void due to 'manipulation'
of votes and 'corrupt practices' committed by him, his election agents and others,
with his consent. Raja Kannappan had also sought recount of the votes polled in
the entire constituency, particularly in the Alangudi Assembly segment.
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