Amid the row over his disqualification, Rahul Gandhi visited Parliament at the moment

New Delhi:

The Election Commission at the moment didn’t announce byelections for the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala, which has fallen vacant after Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as an MP following his two-year jail sentence in a defamation case.

Karnataka will vote on May 10 and the decision will likely be introduced three days later, on May 13, the Election physique stated, additionally asserting by-polls for the Jalandhar Lok Sabha MP.

The extensively anticipated Wayanad dates have been lacking. All vacancies until February 2023 have been cleared, the ballot physique stated.

“We have cleared vacancies till February. This vacancy was notified in March. A 30-day period has been given for appeal. We are not in a hurry,” Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar instructed reporters.

He cited the Representation of People Act, 1951, to say by-polls must be held inside six months of any emptiness.

The Congress had prepped for a authorized battle if the Election Commission had introduced bypolls in Wayanad at the moment.

Rahul Gandhi was disqualified on Friday, a day after a Surat courtroom convicted him in a defamation case filed by a BJP chief and sentenced him to 2 years in jail.

The Congress chief has 30 days to enchantment the sentence.

If the sentence is placed on maintain, Rahul Gandhi will get his Lok Sabha membership again, the Congress says.

The Representation of the People Act, 1951, says that anybody convicted of an offence and sentenced to imprisonment for 2 years or extra stands disqualified.

In an identical case, one other politician was restored as a Lok Sabha MP at the moment.

Lakshadweep MP Mohammad Faizal, who was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in jail in an tried homicide case, acquired again his Loj Sabha membership two months after the Kerala High Court suspended his sentence.

Mr Faisal claims {that a} false case was registered towards him in 2016 over allegations of an try to homicide a relative of former Union Minister PM Sayeed throughout the 2009 elections.

The NCP chief was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2019, in the course of his trial. He was sentenced together with three others on January 11. Two days later, the Lok Sabha Secretariat despatched him a disqualification discover.

On January 18, the Election Commission introduced polls to Mr Faisal’s Lakshadweep seat on January 27. Two days earlier than the polls, the Kerala High Court suspended Mr Faisal’s sentence, forcing the Election Commission to withhold the byelection. Sources stated the ballot physique wished to keep away from an identical retreat within the case of Wayanad.