Delhi HC issues notices to Centre, AAP on 11 aspirants

Delhi High Court on Monday asked Centre, Election Commission and AAP Government to file response on eleven aspirants who sought to file nomination papers from New Delhi Assembly Constituency, from where Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is contesting the elections.

The court will hear on February 6, the plea of all eleven aspirants challenging single judge bench order dismissing their plea calling it not maintainable.

The petitioners had said that their nomination papers were wrongly, illegally, arbitrarily and unconstitutionally rejected and thereby, and they have been deprived of their constitutional rights to contest elections.