BSP MLA Ansari, SP MLA Hari Om withdraw petitions

BSP MLA Mukhtar Ansari and SP MLA Hari Om Yadav today withdrew their petitions seeking permission to allow them to cast votes in the ongoing Rajya Sabha election in UP.

Allowing the withdrawal, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissed the petitions of both the MLAs.

The two MLAs had filed the petitions yesterday and special permission of the court was obtained for hearing the matter due to urgency.

A bench of Justice Prashant Kumar and Justice Rajan Roy had yesterday heard the matter in brief and directed that the petitions would be heard on Thursday, permitting the state government to get details of the issue.

However, just as the judges came into the court room at 10.30 AM, senior advocate SC Mishra appearing for both the MLAs mentioned the matter and requested the court to allow him to withdraw both the petitions.

Mishra did not state any reason as to why and under which circumstances, the MLAs were desirous to withdraw the petitions filed a day before showing utter urgency in the matter.

Advocate general Raghvendra Singh who was present in the court to place the stand of the state government did not oppose withdrawal of the petitions. The bench accordingly dismissed the petitions as withdrawn.

Since both the MLAs withdrew petition from the high court, there are least chances they would be able to cast their votes in the Rajya Sabha elections tomorrow.