Subramanian Swamy threatens to sue BJP over the extension of Nadda’s term, failure to hold internal polls
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday cautioned to take legal action against his own party, alleging that the lack of internal elections and the extension of J P Nadda’s term as president was violative of the party constitution.
Uploading his letter to Nadda on February 6, Swamy wrote: “I am enclosing herewith my letter apprising the Election Commission (dated 13 November 2023) about the lack of internal party elections in BJP as violative of statutory and constitutional provisions, as provided in the Constitution and The Representation of the People Act, 1951.
Swamy has marked the letter to the Election Commission also.
The letter enclosed below is to initiate some more democracy in the Party, to enable Party workers to participate in the activities of the Party. pic.twitter.com/E1aUr9eJq1
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) February 14, 2024
“Even the term-extension of the BJP President is currently in contravention to Article XXI of the Party Constitution, which stipulates for the term’s length to be only 3 years, extendable through fresh party elections.”
As per Article XXI of the party constitution, “an eligible member can hold the post of the President for two consecutive terms of three years each”.
Swamy said since the matter was before the Election Commission and “may be filed in the Delhi High Court as violative of my fundamental rights, I hereby give you notice that I intend to take legal action for necessary reliefs, after a month from today’s date”.
“As ever, I am available to apprise you in person, of the ramifications of the failure to hold legitimate party elections to elect office bearers and committees,” he added.
Earlier late Ram Jethmalani took the BJP to court to expel him the violating party rules. After conducting five years, then BJP president Amit Shah and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley apologized to Jethmalani, leading to the settlement of the case. BJP submitted an apology to the court in 2018.[1]
Reference:
[1] Ram Jethmalani accepts Arun Jaitley and Amit Shah’s apologies and settles six-year old legal battle with BJP – Dec 07, 2018, PGurus.com
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He is increasingly a frustrated man. The respect that was reserved for him is slowly melting away with each of his utterings. BJP will have internal elections, they are unlike Khangress. Some delays & reasons may be possible