PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun

The Congress has hailed the decision of the Supreme Court in which it dismissed the plea of the State Election Commission for a stay on the Uttarakhand High Court order on the issue of allowing persons with names in multiple voter lists to contest the Panchayat elections. An SC bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta also imposed a penalty of Rs two lakh in the SEC in its hearing on Friday.

The leader of opposition in Vidhan Sabha, Yashpal Arya said that the SC order has vindicated the stand of the Congress party on the issue of allowing candidates with names in multiple voter lists correct. He said that the SEC had refused to cancel the nomination of candidates with names in multiple voter lists on which the HC had directed the SEC to act as p

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