KOCHI: The Kerala High Court has clarified that they will not intervene on the incident of rejecting the nomination papers of NDA candidates in Guruvayur, Thalassery and Devikulam constituencies. The court accepted election commission’s claim and said cannot intervene after the notification came.

The high court dismissed the pleas citing Supreme Court’s verdict that courts cannot intervene once election proceedings begin. With this, the NDA lost its candidates in all the three constituencies.

The election commission informed the court that the decision of the returning officer in accepting the nomination papers is final. Lawyers for the NDA candidates pointed that in many constituencies, the returning officers allowed to correct the mistakes in the nomination papers. The officers acted automatically. They also demanded that they be given an opportunity to correct the mistakes.

The petitioners alleged that the returning officers had given time to candidates in Piravom and Kondotty to correct the mistakes. The petitioners alleged that the returning officers were taking decisions by looking at the colour of the party.

The nomination papers of BJP candidates N Haridas from Thalassery, advocate Nivedita Subramanyam of Guruvayur and AIADMK candidate R M Dhanalakshmi from Devikulam were rejected. The nominations were rejected on the grounds that forum A submitted along with nominations in Thalassery was not signed by the BJP national president and the forum submitted in Guruvayur was not signed by the party state president.