KOCHI, April 24 -- Attempts by the Congress and the pro-CPI(M) Asianet News channel to derail the electoral fortunes of BJP's Rajeev Chandrasekhar who is contesting as a candidate from the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency fell flat on Tuesday as Kerala High Court dismissed a public interest litigation petition filed by the Congress challenging the returning officer' decision to accept the nomination papers of the BJP candidate.
The petitioner had contended that Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a union minister of state, had filed false affidavits along with his nomination paper and these were accepted by the Returning Officer. Their grievance was that the union minister, one of the billionaires in the country, had suppressed details of his t...