Who Led The Meenakshi Natarajan Case Papers Out? BJP Claims It Was An ‘Inside Job’

Published 10 June 2026 · local

Who Led The Meenakshi Natarajan Case Papers Out? BJP Claims It Was An ‘Inside Job’ Published By, Last Updated: June 10, 2026, 13:29 IST Congress's

Who Led The Meenakshi Natarajan Case Papers Out? BJP Claims It Was An ‘Inside Job’ Published By, Last Updated: June 10, 2026, 13:29 IST Congress's Meenakshi Natarajan Disqualified: BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya said they did not discover the information independently, but received it from within the Congress Rapid Read Rahul Gandhi with Meenakshi Natarajan. (File) In a disclosure that may leave the already-embarrassed Congress red-faced, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has alleged that the legal documents that led to the disqualification of INC’s Madhya Pradesh Rajya Sabha election nominee Meenakshi Natarajan were leaked from within her party’s Telangana unit. Senior BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Cabinet Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya stated that the BJP did not discover the information independently, but received it from within the Congress. The enemy within Congress? Speaking to reporters after the rejection of Natarajan’s nomination, Vijayvargiya told reporters, “As for the documents we received—who gave them to us? You can understand the state the Congress is in." “The point is, we were receiving documents related to Telangana, a state where they are in power.

We didn’t have any information ourselves; it must have been Congress members who provided it," he said. “Whether they took MLAs to Bengaluru or even to London, we would have won the election anyway, because the people of the country have faith in Modi," he remarked. गलत जानकारी के आधार पर राज्यसभा चुनाव नामांकन पत्र भरने के कारण कांग्रेस प्रत्याशी का नामांकन निरस्त हो गया।सत्य और पारदर्शिता लोकतंत्र की सबसे बड़ी आवश्यकता है। pic.twitter.com/VXWQITmllM — Kailash Vijayvargiya (@KailashOnline) June 9, 2026 Meenakshi Natarajan’s ‘pending criminal record’ The documents pertained to a private court complaint filed by a woman named A. Srilata in a Hyderabad court in August 2025, which named Natarajan (then the AICC in-charge of Telangana) as a respondent. The Hyderabad court had issued a legal notice requiring Natarajan to appear, a fact the BJP used to claim she was hiding a “pending criminal record". Meenakshi Out, Mahesh In, No Cong-test: How BJP Changed Rajya Sabha Math In Madhya Pradesh Explained How did the BJP use the papers?

Equipped with these documents, BJP candidate Mahesh Kewat and state general secretary Rahul Kothari lodged a formal complaint with the Rajya Sabha election Returning Officer. The BJP argued that Natarajan violated Supreme Court guidelines by filing an incomplete affidavit (Form 26) that omitted material information about a pending court matter. I talked to Ms. Meenakshi Natarajan and several other senior Congress leaders yesterday when I learned of this most remarkable and astonishing rejection of her nomination papers by the Returning Officer.This is, on the face of it, patently and blatantly illegal because no… pic.twitter.com/CCBx5x1aG Congress (@INCIndia) June 10, 2026 Accepting the BJP’s objection, Returning Officer Arvind Sharma officially rejected her nomination, leaving the Congress without a candidate in the fray and without a backup candidate in Madhya Pradesh. Congress’s internal rift While the Congress high command has slammed the rejection as a “conspiracy and dictatorship", internal rifts within the party — highlighted by the sudden resignation of Madhya Pradesh Congress leader Gyanchandani over her selection — have now raised questions over the leak.