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JAIPUR: Even as Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra entered its second day in Rajasthan on Tuesday, the Congress acquired a jolt with the High Court issuing a discover to the Rajasthan Assembly Speaker CP Joshi over the resignations of 91 celebration MLAs on September 25.
A division bench of Justices MM Srivastava and VK Bhavani gave the order on a PIL filed by BJP chief Rajendra Singh Rathore, because the Speaker has not but taken any determination on the problem. The petition mentioned if an MLA submits his resignation below Rule 173 of the Legislative Assembly Procedure, the Speaker has no possibility however to just accept the resignation and might solely look at whether or not the resignation is voluntary and real or not.
The petition additionally mentioned that it’s doable that such an enormous variety of MLAs might have been pressured to provide their resignations or their signatures had been solid, and the federal government has misplaced confidence within the House because of the resignation of MLAs. “The court has issued a two weeks’ notice after the hearing,” Rathore mentioned.
“The Speaker and the secretary of the Assembly will have to present why they have not yet decided on these resignations even after a lapse of 70 days,” he added. Meanwhile, Rahul confronted pro-Modi slogans when his rally handed in entrance of the workplace of Lok Sabha MP Dushyant Singh, the son of former Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje in Jhalawar district, which is the BJP chief’s bastion.
Rahul shook fingers with the BJP employees and likewise requested Sachin Pilot and Ramlal Jat, who had been strolling alongside, to greet them. The Congress leaders waved on the crowd, and even blew just a few flying kisses in the direction of them, which led to a burst of clapping from the onlookers. This, the Congress mentioned, is a mirrored image of the type of politics Rahul needs to advertise by way of his Yatra. Rahul additionally mentioned on the social media that the aim of his Yatra is to counter the politics of hatred that’s being unfold within the nation.
“Neither malice, nor irritation, nor anger — there is none of these in the heart of any of our Yatris. There is something to unite India, sympathy for the problems of Indians and love for all countrymen…,” he posted. Meanwhile, amid persevering with inner tussle within the Congress in Rajasthan, senior Punjab chief Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has been appointed because the state on-charge rather than Ajay Maken, who resigned just a few weeks in the past. Randhawa has additionally been nominated as a member of the Congress Steering Committee. In the final two-and-a-half years, two state in-charges have resigned in Rajasthan, however the Gehlot-Pilot dispute stays unresolved.
JAIPUR: Even as Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra entered its second day in Rajasthan on Tuesday, the Congress acquired a jolt with the High Court issuing a discover to the Rajasthan Assembly Speaker CP Joshi over the resignations of 91 celebration MLAs on September 25.
A division bench of Justices MM Srivastava and VK Bhavani gave the order on a PIL filed by BJP chief Rajendra Singh Rathore, because the Speaker has not but taken any determination on the problem. The petition mentioned if an MLA submits his resignation below Rule 173 of the Legislative Assembly Procedure, the Speaker has no possibility however to just accept the resignation and might solely look at whether or not the resignation is voluntary and real or not.
The petition additionally mentioned that it’s doable that such an enormous variety of MLAs might have been pressured to provide their resignations or their signatures had been solid, and the federal government has misplaced confidence within the House because of the resignation of MLAs. “The court has issued a two weeks’ notice after the hearing,” Rathore mentioned.
“The Speaker and the secretary of the Assembly will have to present why they have not yet decided on these resignations even after a lapse of 70 days,” he added. Meanwhile, Rahul confronted pro-Modi slogans when his rally handed in entrance of the workplace of Lok Sabha MP Dushyant Singh, the son of former Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje in Jhalawar district, which is the BJP chief’s bastion.
Rahul shook fingers with the BJP employees and likewise requested Sachin Pilot and Ramlal Jat, who had been strolling alongside, to greet them. The Congress leaders waved on the crowd, and even blew just a few flying kisses in the direction of them, which led to a burst of clapping from the onlookers. This, the Congress mentioned, is a mirrored image of the type of politics Rahul needs to advertise by way of his Yatra. Rahul additionally mentioned on the social media that the aim of his Yatra is to counter the politics of hatred that’s being unfold within the nation.
“Neither malice, nor irritation, nor anger — there is none of these in the heart of any of our Yatris. There is something to unite India, sympathy for the problems of Indians and love for all countrymen…,” he posted. Meanwhile, amid persevering with inner tussle within the Congress in Rajasthan, senior Punjab chief Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa has been appointed because the state on-charge rather than Ajay Maken, who resigned just a few weeks in the past. Randhawa has additionally been nominated as a member of the Congress Steering Committee. In the final two-and-a-half years, two state in-charges have resigned in Rajasthan, however the Gehlot-Pilot dispute stays unresolved.