{"id":8881,"date":"2020-03-16T17:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T11:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8881"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:03","slug":"allegation-of-irregularities-in-nominations-of-trinamool-party-supported-rs-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/allegation-of-irregularities-in-nominations-of-trinamool-party-supported-rs-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegation of \u201cirregularities\u201d in nominations of Trinamool &#038; party-supported RS candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nominations of two Rajya Sabha candidates \u2013 one from Trinamool Congress and the other backed by the party \u2013 in West Bengal are under scrutiny after the Left Front cited some \u201cirregularities\u201d in their nominations.<br \/>\nThe Left parties have made such allegations against Trinamool Congress leader Mausam Benazir Noor and former party MLA Dinesh Bajaj, who is contesting independently, backed by the party.<\/p>\n<p>The Left Front in the state has alleged that Noor has an ongoing criminal case against her name but it was not notified by her party in their official social media account within 48 hours of her filing nomination. According to a Supreme Court ruling in February, political parties must notify the public about any ongoing proceedings against a candidate in a local vernacular newspaper, a national newspaper, and on the official social media platforms of the party within the given time.<br \/>\nThe Left Front has alleged that Bajaj\u2019s nomination paper does not contain the signature of a notary which is required in filing nomination.<br \/>\nThe Election Commission will announce their decision in the matter at around 11 am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The election body will announce the decision on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election body will announce the decision on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[341,252,251,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-left-front","9":"tag-parliament","10":"tag-rajya-sabha","11":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}