India, June 10 -- Senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya on Tuesday dismissed the Congress' allegations of a "murder of democracy" over the rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan's nomination for the third Rajya Sabha seat from Madhya Pradesh, claiming that Congress leaders from Telangana had supplied the documents that led to the controversy.

The Rajya Sabha election in Madhya Pradesh witnessed a dramatic turn after Natarajan's nomination was rejected on charges of concealing information in her affidavit. The election for three Rajya Sabha seats is scheduled to be held on June 18.

According to Returning Officer Arvind Sharma's order, scrutiny of the nomination papers revealed that Natarajan had failed to disclose a court complaint in Telanga...