New Delhi: Amid the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) sweep of local body polls in the Union Territory (UT) of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, the Congress is considering its next steps. It has accused the BJP of “hijacking” the elections, alleging that 80% of Congress candidates’ nominations as well as nominations of several independent candidates were rejected at the scrutiny stage.

The Congress candidates may approach the Election Commission of the UTs or the Bombay High Court with an election petition. Such a petition challenges the validity of an election, and can be filed in the high court of the state in which the election was conducted.

“We may have to go to the Election Commission first, because last time the high court had asked the petitioners if they had done that. The hi

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