India, June 10 -- A team of Congress leaders met Election Commission officials on Wednesday over the Rajya Sabha candidature of Meenakshi Natarajan being cancelled in Madhya Pradesh. Following the key meet, Congress MPs Abhishek Manu Singhvi and KC Venugopal held a presser, calling the nomination cancellation "illegal".

Explaining the argument, Singhvi said the nomination was rejected citing a criminal case pending against Natarajan, but that is not the case. "The irony is that there is no criminal case that actually exists in law, that is established, that she could have disclosed," Singhvi said. Congress has urged the EC to reverse the move, calling it "egregious and blatantly unlawful".

Congress said that its delegation has made a de...