The High Court of  Madhya Pradesh today refused to stay the Election Commission of India's disqualification of the state's Water Resources, Legislative Affairs and Public Relations Minister Narottam Mishra and asked the latter to file a reply by July 5.

On June 23 the Election Commission of India had disqualified Mishra for filing wrong poll expenditure accounts during the 2008 assembly polls. Before the Gwalior bench of the high court, the minister had filed the writ petition.

Mishra had moved the Madhya Pradesh High Court and the Supreme Court against the EC notice but had failed to get any relief.

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