Aspirants who lose in party primaries and seek to contest as independent candidates may soon be locked out if a report by a task force set up by the Registrar of Political Parties is adopted by Parliament.
The registrar wants to seal loopholes in the law that gives room for nomination losers to vie as independent candidates.
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