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Allahabad high court dismisses election petition against PM Modi

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The Allahabad High Court, on Friday, dismissed an election petition challenging the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency.

The petition was filed by ex-BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav in July this year after his nomination was rejected by the retuning officer in Varanasi.

The petitioner's lawyer Shailender Srivastava had argued that the returning officer had rejected his client's nomination papers on the ground that he had failed to file a certificate issued by the Election Commission to the effect that he was not dismissed from the BSF on the ground of corruption or disloyalty to the state.