As per latest report The Election Commission of India is preparing to call 21 MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for a hearing on allegations of occupying offices of profit in violation of the Constitution and the officials adding that the President’s refusal to give assent to an amendment to the Delhi Members of Legislative Assembly Act, 1997 has almost prepared the ground for the 21 MLAs to lose membership of Delhi legislature.
Meanwhile the highly placed officials in the Election Commission has said that the hearing may happen soon since the President rejected amendment to the bill passed by the Delhi assembly seeking to exempt MLAs appointed as parliamentary secretaries and the AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has attacked Prime Minister Modi saying that “Modiji is panicking over the good work that is being done in Delhi.”
It is stated that the EC in March this year, in its capacity as the quasi-judicial body, had issued a show-cause notice to AAP legislators who were appointed as Parliamentary Secretaries by the Delhi government last year.
The BJP MP from Delhi Meenakshi Lekhi has demanded disqualification of the MLAs and called Kejriwal “newage Tughlaq” for defending his decision to appoint them to the posts without following rules and the appointment of 21 Parliament Secretaries is illegal as the prescribed limit for such an appointment in Delhi is only one.
