Hyderabad, April 27 -- The Bharat Rastra Samithi (BRS) on Saturday, April 27, asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to reject the nomination filed by the BJP candidate from Adilabad constituency Godam Nagesh for not filing the affidavit in the "prescribed manner."

In a letter to the ECI, the party wrote, "Sri Nagesh failed to file the affidavit in the prescribed manner as elucidated by the Election Commission of India in the compendium of instructions Volum II, regarding Nomination Affidavit Rules of Form 26."

The party highlighted Rule 2 of the said instructions, which states, "If columns have been left blank in the affidavit in Form 26, this should be specified against item I and candidates should be asked to submit an affidavi...