President Ram Nath Kovind today accepted the Election Commission’s recommendation to disqualify 20 MLAs of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party for holding offices of profit.
The then comptroller and auditor general (CAG) Rai came out with a report in 2010 which pegged notional loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the national exchequer due to 2G spectrum allocation.
According to highly-placed sources, in its opinion sent to President, the EC has said the MLAs were liable to be disqualified as legislators.
Swamy submitted before Metropolitan Magistrate Ambika Singh that the I-T department had launched a probe against Gandhis, YI, and four other accused after taking note of his complaint in the case.
"They are insulting the people of Bengal and depriving them of their right. We demand that the Indian Railways and Eastern Railway withdraw the letter sent to the state Chief Secretary," Parth Chatterjee said.
Singh said the decision of the poll panel was one-sided as the appointment letter given to 20 lawmakers of the AAP specifically said that the office of the Parliamentary Secretary was not an office of profit.
Congress party today released a document in media that shows Dwarka MLA Adarsh Shastri accepted payment of Rs 15, 479. Shastri was appointed as parliamentary secretary to Information and Technology Minister.
Mishra’s claim comes as uncertainty lurks over the fate of 20 AAP MLAs in the wake of the Election Commission recommending their disqualification in the “Office of Profit” case.
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The ECI recommended to the President the disqualification of 20 legislators who were appointed as parliamentary secretaries by the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi.
The annual meet of the WEF would be beginning on January 22. Modi would address the opening plenary on January 23 at 11:30 am local time (3:30 pm IST)
Rahul Gandhi's question to Modi came after the PM asked people to pitch ideas for the next 'Mann ki Baat' programme to be aired on January 28, the first one this year.
Anandiben Patel will replace Om Prakash Kohli who is the Governor of Gujarat and has been given the additional charge of Madhya Pradesh.
Notably, On January 12 last, the CM Nitish Kumar's convoy was pelted with stones during his tour of Nandan village in Dumraon block as part of his state-wide Vikas Samiksha Yatra.
Mamata Banerjee also expressed support to AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal. "At this hour we are strongly with @arvindkejriwal and his team," she tweeted.
Regretting that the EC allowed "undue" adjournments of hearings of AAP MLAs, which "dearly cost" the people, Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari said the party unit "stands prepared for elections any moment".
Speaking to media after EC’s recommendation to disqualify 20 AAP MLA in Delhi, Saurabh said that the Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti was “returning favour to PM Narendra Modi for appointing him”.
"AK Joti, CEC is Gujarat cadre IAS officer. He will retire on Monday (Jan 23). He did not hear 21 MLAs even once on merits. He is only returning the Prime Minister favour for appointing him" said Bharadwaj.
In its opinion sent to President Ram Nath Kovind, the Election Commission reportedly said that by becoming parliamentary secretaries, they held office of profit and were liable to be disqualified as MLAs of the Delhi Assembly.
A Raja claimed that he had got Manmohan Singh's "approval to go ahead" for allocating 2G telecom spectrum to new players after he explained the whole process and that there was enough spectrum available.
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