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The Supreme Court has clarified that the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (RPA), cannot be applied to elections held for municipal bodies, as the law is specifically meant to govern elections to Parliament and State Legislatures. The ruling came in a case involving a woman candidate who contested the 2015 municipal [] The post Representation of the People Act does not extend to municipal polls: Supreme Court appeared first on India Legal .