HC seeks EC, Kejriwal's response on plea for AAP derecognition

While issuing notice to Kejriwal and six of his party members, Justice Manmohan directed them to file their response within four weeks.
   
It also asked Election Commission of India (ECI) to file a counter affidavit within four weeks.
   
Rejoinder affidavit from the petitioner, if any, be filed before the next date of hearing, it said.
   
The court notice came on a plea filed by Janraajya Party, an unrecognised political party, which sought directions to the ECI to decide the issue of "whether or not AAP has indeed committed fraud and forgery while submitting the mandatory 100 affidavits of founding members to the poll panel at the time of its registration".
   
Advocates Lohitaksha Shukla and Raghav Awasthi, who filed the petition on behalf of Janraajya Party, submitted that the ECI instead of taking any action informed the petitioner that since the matter involves a criminal offence of forgery, it would not initiate any action until the police completes its investigation.

The plea has also sought necessary directions to the SHO of the police station concerned to register an FIR against the accused persons for criminal conspiracy, cheating and using forged documents as genuine ones.
   
It has said that the petitioner party had filed a complaint before poll panel on August 19, 2013 but the ECI has been delaying the matter without giving any plausible reasons.

Narendra Modi to launch BJP's membership drive today

"As per the BJP's constitution, the party renews the membership every two years. On Saturday, Narendra Bhai will launch party's new membership drive with an aim to increase its strength by four times than the present one," Shah said addressing the Karyakarta Sankalp Adhiveshan here ahead of local bodies elections in Madhya Pradesh.

"A toll-free number will also be launched and people would be asked to give a missed call on it. After that they will get their membership number and other details through SMS," he said.

In states like Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Goa and others where the party is strong, the BJP will have to increase its membership by four times and work further towards cementing it permanently, he said.

Madhya Pradesh has to raise its membership to two crore this time, as per the target, he said.

In states where the party is not that strong, it has to ensure that the membership drive reaches from cities to towns, village and to booth level, the BJP leader said.

The frontal organisations too have been given the task of registering full-time party members.

BJP is the only party in the country which follows internal democracy in totality by holding elections every two years, Shah claimed.

Source: MP News in Hindi and Chhattisgarh Hindi News