New Delhi: The government is likely to today consider an ordinance to protect convicted MPs and MLAs from facing immediate disqualification after having failed to get a Bill to this effect passed in Parliament.
With Parliament not being able to pass a law to negate a Supreme Court verdict, lawmakers convicted in criminal cases with imprisonment of two years or more face the prospect of immediate disqualification.
The government had recently introduced the Representation of the People (Second Amendment) Bill, 2013 in Rajya Sabha to overturn the Supreme Court judgement that lawmakers convicted of crimes with punishment of two years or more face immediate disqualification.
Sources said the conviction of Congress MP Rashid Masood in a case of corruption and other offences has made the government weigh the options on bringing an ordinance in this regard.
