Twenty AAP MLAs, who have been disqualified as legislators for holding the office of profit, on Tuesday filed a fresh plea in the Delhi High Court.
Twenty AAP MLAs, who have been disqualified as legislators for holding the office of profit, on Tuesday filed a fresh plea in the Delhi High Court.
The MLAs approached the court seeking quashing of the Election Commission's (EC) recommendation which has received Presidential assent.
The matter was urgently mentioned in the court of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal, the mentioning court, who listed it for Wednesday.
On Monday, the legislators had withdrawn the plea after President Ram Nath Kovind put a stamp of approval on the EC's recommendation to file a fresh plea.
The 20 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).
These MLAs were appointed parliamentary secretaries to assist ministers with their work by the AAP dispensation.
The AAP leaders have contended that no hearing on the merits of the case had taken place before the EC, nor was any opportunity granted to the petitioners before the poll panel. They had also claimed that no evidence was led by complainant Prashant Patel.
On Monday, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia wrote an open letter to Delhiites, terming the disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs as 'dirty politics' of the BJP and appealing to them to give a befitting reply to the saffron party.
Sharing the letter on Twitter, Sisodia said that the BJP has 'imposed' bypolls to the 20 Assembly seats on the people of Delhi, effectively hampering the development works in the city for the next two years.
Sisodia said the disqualification of 20 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs was "unconstitutional".
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