The BJP leader had approached the top court against the Madhya Pradesh High Court order refusing to give him urgent hearing on his plea seeking permission to vote in the election to be held on July 17.
The poll panel had on June 23 disqualified Mishra for three years over paid news charges, holding him guilty of filing wrong accounts of election expenditure relating to articles and advertorials in the media in the 2008 assembly polls.
The apex court also said the Delhi HC should hear the matter from tomorrow and asked it to conclude the hearing before the voting for presidential poll.
Earlier in the day, the apex court had agreed to hear his plea after his counsel mentioned the matter before it.
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He argued that disqualification does not mean that he can be barred from voting. "I have the right for hearing and voting in the presidential election," Rohatgi said.
Disqualifying Mishra from contesting elections for three years following a complaint against him, the commission had used some strong words against paid news, calling it a "cancerous menace" that is assuming "alarming proportions" in the electoral landscape.
A full bench of the Election Commission, comprising then Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi and Election Commissioners A K Joti (now CEC) and O P Rawat, had in its order indicted Mishra and unseated him under various sections of the Representation of the People Act (RPA).
Mishra, who won from Datia assembly constituency, is the minister for water resources and public relations and the chief spokesperson of the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government.
Bharti, the main complainant in the case, had first sent a complaint to the EC about eight years back in 2009.
It had said that its findings had also strengthened the conclusion that he had "knowingly participated or took advantage of the expenditure on such advertisements" that had appeared as news in the publications.
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