India, June 11 -- Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming that the election machinery under his watch had "illegally" rejected the nomination of Congress candidate Meenakshi Natarajan for the Rajya Sabha election from Madhya Pradesh.

Alleging that the BJP used the election machinery to reject the Congress candidate's nomination, he said it was "peak irony" that this happened on the day the BJP was celebrating Modi's "supposed long stay in power as a cooked-up milestone for Indian democracy."

The upcoming elections to three Rajya Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh took a dramatic turn in Bhopal on Tuesday after Natarajan's nomination was rejected on charges of concealing inform...