Delegations of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress are at the Election Commission over the grand old party's demand of rejection of votes of its two MLAs in Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls who allegedly showed the votes to people other than authorised representatives.

Offering precedent of such an action, Congress leader Anand Sharma said, "One of our MLAs had mistakenly showed his vote in Haryana and his vote was rejected. Same was done in Gujarat so the vote should be rejected."

Voicing similar opinion, Congress leader P Chidambaram said, "There is enough evidence that the ballot paper were seen by people other than those authorised. The EC must reject these ballot papers as it did in Haryana in June 2016."

Meanwhile, terming Congress' objections as 'baseless', the BJP demanded immediate counting of votes for the Rajya Sabha polls in Gujarat, contending that validity of votes once put in ballot boxes cannot be questioned.

A delegation of party leaders, including Union ministers Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Piyush Goyal, approached the EC after the Congress asked the poll panel to cancel the votes of its two 'disgruntled' MLAs.

Goyal told reporters after meeting EC officials that the decision of presiding officers is final.

"If neither they (Congress) nor election observers object to it when votes were cast, then the votes cannot be questioned now," he said, and demanded that 'the counting of votes should be done immediately and results declared'.

Prasad said the Congress was reacting out of fear of losing the poll, in which its senior leader Ahmed Patel is locked in a tight fight with a Congress rebel fielded by the BJP.  -- PTI

IMAGE: Congress leaders P Chidambaram, right, and Randeep Surjewala at the Election Commission in New Delhi on Tuesday evening. Photograph: ANI