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GUWAHATI: The Manipur High Court on Thursday declared the election of BJP MLA, Okram Henry, who is also a minister, as null and void for filing incorrect and incomplete information in his affidavit.
A single-judge bench of Justice MV Muralidaran declared that the petitioner, Yumkham Erabot Singh, is duly elected as a member of 15-Wangkhei Assembly constituency.
Contesting as a Congress candidate, Henry had polled 16,753 votes as against 12,417 by Singh of the BJP. Later, Henry had defected to the BJP and was appointed as a minister.
The petitioner highlighted that Henry had furnished incorrect educational qualifications and also did not give full details of a criminal case and a drug case against him in the affidavit.