New Delhi: The day after the Supreme Court is worth the investigation, whether ‘NOTA’ can be considered a rival in a constituency, where a single candidate is in the fray, the Center strongly opposed the argument on Friday and said that NOTA, being an alternative or expression, could not be given either a statue or constitutionally position.“NOTA option is not a person who has been duly nominated in any election and therefore, cannot be conducted as a candidate under the representation of the People’s Act, 1951. ‘NOTA’ should not be given an artificial personality.The petitioner NGO ‘Vidhi Center for Legal Policy’ had said that in the case of an election, in which only one candidate from a constituency, Section 53 (2) of the RP Act announces the said candidate automatically without holding the pole. It denies the right to vote against the said candidate by choosing citizens for ‘NOTA’, which is an aspect of their fundamental right to expression under Article 19 (1) (A), which has been exercised through voting. The Ministry said that the right to vote, which is a legal right and not a fundamental right, only arises in a situation where a survey is a survey to include two or more candidates in a constituency. ‘Freedom of voting’ is accidental for ‘the right to vote’ in ‘The Pol’ under Seks 62 of the RP Act.
