Sravan Kumar and Satyanarayana were nominated to the Legislative Council by the previous BRS government in August 2023, but the governor rejected the nominations on September 19 on the ground that the two were “politically aligned persons”
The two benches in Calcutta High Court reproached each other in back-to-back orders on January 24 and 25. The matter has been kept for hearing on January 29.
The high court was hearing a PIL filed by petitioner lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, who argued that such political parties’ names might prejudicially affect the poll prospects of a candidate amounting to a corrupt practice under the Representation of the People Act (RPA), 1951