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Office of profit row: 20 AAP MLAs withdraw plea from Delhi HC against Election Commission

Press Trust of India • February 24, 2018, 10:36:12 IST
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The 20 AAP MLAs, who were disqualified on the Election Commission’s (EC) recommendation for holding office of profit, have withdrawn from the Delhi High Court their earlier plea challenging the poll panel’s initial decision to hear the issue.

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Office of profit row: 20 AAP MLAs withdraw plea from Delhi HC against Election Commission

New Delhi: The 20 AAP MLAs, who were disqualified on the Election Commission’s (EC) recommendation for holding office of profit, have withdrawn from the Delhi High Court their earlier plea challenging the poll panel’s initial decision to hear the issue. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs had in August last year challenged the EC’s decision to continue hearing the complaint against them for holding office of profit, saying that once the high court had set aside their appointments as parliamentary secretaries there was no need for the poll panel to hear the matter. [caption id=“attachment_4364939” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]Representational image. News 18 Representational image. News 18[/caption] The MLAs submitted before Justice Rekha Palli that they are going to withdraw their earlier plea as they have challenged their subsequent disqualification before a larger bench of the high court. As there was no opposition from the other side, the court “dismissed as withdrawn” the MLAs earlier plea challenging the EC’s June 23, 2017 decision. The office of profit petition was filed in the EC by one Prashant Patel against 21 MLAs of the Arvind Kejriwal-led party. Subsequently, the proceedings were dropped against Jarnail Singh after he resigned as the Rajouri Garden MLA to contest the Punjab Assembly polls. The EC was of the “considered opinion” that the MLAs were “de facto” parliamentary secretaries from 13 March, 2015 to 8 September, 2016, when the high court had set aside the appointments by terming unconstitutional. On 8 September, 2016 the high court had set aside the appointments of the 21 AAP MLAs as parliamentary secretaries, while observing that their order of appointment was issued without the concurrence of the Lieutenant Governor (LG). The EC had recommended the disqualification of the 20 AAP MLAs on 19 January. The president had accepted the EC’s opinion the very next day. Thereafter, the MLAs have challenged their disqualification order, which the high court is hearing on day-to-day basis. The 20 disqualified MLAs include Adarsh Shastri (Dwarka), Alka Lamba (Chandni Chowk), Anil Bajpai (Gandhi Nagar), Avtar Singh (Kalkaji), Kailash Gahlot (Najafgarh) who is also a minister – Madan Lal (Kasturba Nagar), Manoj Kumar (Kondli), Naresh Yadav (Mehrauli), Nitin Tyagi (Laxmi Nagar), Praveen Kumar (Jangpura). The others are Rajesh Gupta (Wazirpur), Rajesh Rishi (Janakpuri), Sanjeev Jha (Burari), Sarita Singh (Rohtas Nagar), Som Dutt (Sadar Bazar), Sharad Kumar (Narela), Shiv Charan Goel (Moti Nagar), Sukhbir Singh (Mundka), Vijendar Garg (Rajinder Nagar) and Jarnail Singh (Tilak Nagar).

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