India, June 10 -- Senior Congress Rajya Sabha MP and advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Wednesday called the rejection of party candidate Meenakshi Natarajan's Rajya Sabha nomination from Madhya Pradesh "poor and absolutely partisan," days before polling for three Upper House seats in the state on June 18.

"My take on legal validity of the Meenaxi Natrajan Ji's nomination paper rejection case. The decision of the Returning Officer is indeed poor and absolutely partisan," Singhvi posted on X, sharing a video laying out his legal objections to the order.

The rejection came on Tuesday after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including Rajya Sabha candidate Mahesh Kewat and party state general secretary Rahul Kothari, filed an objection a...