New Delhi, June 10 -- Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Wednesday likened the Returning Officer's (RO) decision to reject Congress candidate Meenakshi Natarajan's nomination for the Madhya Pradesh Rajya Sabha elections to saying "2+2=7," asserting that the order was legally untenable and based on a complete misreading of the law.

Speaking to the media after a Congress delegation met the Election Commission (EC) in New Delhi, Singhvi said the party had presented detailed legal arguments demonstrating that the RO's order was "perverse" and contrary to the provisions of the Representation of the People Act.

"We have told them (EC), and we have demonstrated, according to us, beyond doubt and beyond any matter of controversy, that the RO ...