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Big Breaking News: Here’s the Complete List of AAP MLA’s Disqualified by Election Commission
Election Commission today disqualified 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA for holding ‘office of profit’. The poll commission has sent recommendation to President.
If cleared by the President, the disqualification would mean that AAP’s strength in Delhi Assembly will reduce to 47 from the existing 67.
The controversy over the “office of profit” started after a 30-year old lawyer Prashant Patel filed an application in 2015 to the President’s office, questioning the appointment of AAP MLAs as parliamentary secretaries.
Based on this application, Congress had filed a petition in Election Commission in 2016 to seek disqualification of 21 AAP legislators.
Subsequently, the proceedings were dropped against on MLA Jarnail Singh after he resigned as the Rajouri Garden MLA to contest the Punjab Assembly polls in February 2017.
Arvind Kejriwal had appointed MLA in March 2015 and his government passed an amendment to the Delhi Members of Legislative Assembly (Removal of Disqualification) Act, 1997, in June 2015 to exempt the post of parliamentary secretary from the definition of office of profit with retrospective effect.
AAP had argued that this post did not qualify as an office of profit as there is no monetary benefit attached to it. The party’s efforts, however, got a jolt when President Pranab Mukherjee declined approval to the proposed Amendment in June 2016 and the Delhi High Court set aside the order appointing the MLAs as parliamentary secretaries.
Reacting on the matter, opposition parties Congress and BJP have demanded the immediate resignation of Arvind Kejriwal as chief minister of Delhi on moral ground.
Disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs is a huge moral defeat for CM @ArvindKejriwal. It has put his leadership in peril. He must resign on ethical grounds.
— Vijender Gupta (@Gupta_vijender) January 19, 2018
Here’s the list of disqualified 20 AAP MLAs:-
1. Praveen Kumar was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Education Minister
2. Sharad Kumar was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Revenue Minister
3. Adarsh Shastri was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Information and Technology Minister
4. Madan Lal was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Vigilance Minister
5. Shiv Charan Goel was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Finance Minister
6. Sanjeev Jha was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Transport Minister
7. Sarita Singh was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Employment Minister
8. Naresh Yadav was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Labour Minister
9. Rajesh Gupta was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Health Minister
10. Rajesh Rishi was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Health Minister
11. Anil Kumar Bajpai was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Health Minister
12. Som Dutt was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Industries Minister
13. Avtar Singh Kalka as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Gurudwara elections
14. Vijender Garg Vijay was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of PWD
15. Jarnail Singh (Rajauri Garden) was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Power
16. Kailash Gahlot was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Law
17. Alka Lamba was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Tourism
18. Manoj Kumar was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Food and Civil Supplies
19. Nitin Tyagi was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Women and Child and Social Welfare
20. Sukhvir Singh was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Languages and Welfare of SC/ST/OBC respectively.
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