SC refuses plea seeking to derecognise BJP as party

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain a plea seeking to withdraw recognition of BJP as a national party with immediate effect. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjiv Khanna dismissed the plea filed by former reader in Delhi University, saying it found no ground to entertain it. “Having heard the petitioner-in-person and upon perusing the relevant mate-