New Delhi: Sacked BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav on Monday moved to Supreme Court challenging the Election Commission's decision to cancel his candidature from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. He was to contest against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Yadav, who was dismissed in 2017 after he had posted a video online complaining about the food served to the troops, was fielded by the Samajwadi Party as its candidate from the Varanasi seat.
However, the returning officer rejected Yadav's nomination papers citing his failure to submit a certificate that he was not sacked for either corruption or disloyalty.
Yadav, in his plea, termed the decision of the poll panel discriminatory and unreasonable and said it should be set aside.
It is to be noted that the SP had initially fielded Shalini Yadav as its candidate to contest against Modi and later nominated the sacked BSF jawan.
