After day-long twists and turns, the election authority rejected late on Tuesday actor Vishal Krishna’s nomination for the December 21 bypoll to the Radhakrishnan Nagar assembly constituency in Chennai. “Therefore, I conclude that the nomination of Vishal Krishna is rejected upon my summary enquiry,” K Velusamy said in the order which was circulated to media. Earlier in the day, the poll body had rejected Vishal’s nomination forcing the actor to protest on the road. Later after meeting the Election Commission, Vishal told the media: “My nomination has been accepted. A total of 145 people had filed their nomination papers of that 72 nominations have been accepted and 73 have been rejected.

Source: Hindustan Times December 06, 2017 02:15 UTC