Kiran Choudhary Latest News: Haryana Assembly Speaker Gyan Chand Gupta has rejected Congress’s petition seeking disqualification of Kiran Chaudhary as an assembly member on ‘technical grounds’. Kiran Chaudhary and her daughter Shruti Chaudhary had resigned from the primary membership of Congress last month and joined BJP.
The statement issued said that Speaker Gupta has rejected the Congress’ petition as it did not meet the criteria of the Assembly’s ‘Disqualification of Members on Ground of Defection Rules, 1986’, due to which it was rejected on technical grounds. Was done. It has been said in the statement that the Assembly Secretariat has informed the Congress leaders about this on Thursday.
Congress MLAs Aftab Ahmed and BB Batra had written the letter.
Let us tell you that on June 19, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) deputy leader Aftab Ahmed and CLP Chief Whip BB Batra had given a letter to the Assembly Speaker. In which it was said that Kiran Chaudhary was elected Congress MLA from Tosham, Bhiwani in the 2019 assembly elections.
According to the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution of India, specifically paragraph 2 (1) (a), a member of the House belonging to any political party is disqualified from membership of the House if the member of the House voluntarily leaves the party. . In such a situation, Congress MLAs Batra and Ahmed Chaudhary had demanded disqualification of Kiran Chaudhary. A reminder was also sent to the Assembly after a few days.
Demand was made to disqualify Kiran Chaudhary
According to the statement, the Legislative Assembly Secretariat clarified that a petition has been filed before the Assembly Speaker for such a demand, while the Congress leaders only sent a notice demanding disqualification of Kiran Chaudhary as a member of the House. .
The ‘Disqualification of Members on Ground of Defection Rules, 1986’ clearly states that a petition seeking termination of membership of an MLA shall be signed by the petitioner and verified in the manner prescribed in Part 5 of the Code . If the petition does not meet the criteria under the prescribed rules, the Speaker of the Assembly can reject it.
Speaker rejected Congress’ petition
The statement said that the Speaker has got the notice received from Congress leaders examined by experts. During this time it was found that this notice was not meeting the criteria of the rules. MLAs Ahmed and Batra had last month said that Kiran Choudhary was selected as a Congress candidate and now he has voluntarily given up his membership by joining BJP, hence he is ineligible under the provisions of the Tenth Schedule.
He has been clearly disqualified and cannot be counted as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for any intent and purpose on June 19, 2024. In his petition, he had requested that a suitable notification or announcement be made regarding his disqualification. Let us tell you that Kiran Chaudhary is the daughter-in-law of former Haryana Chief Minister Bansilal.
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