Since then, both sides have made claims and counter claims over the validity of the Speaker's decision to reject the resignations. The matter was heard in the Rajasthan High Court on Friday by a bench of Justices Pankaj Bhandari and Bhuwan Goyal.
Leader of Opposition in Rajasthan Assembly Rajendra Rathore on Tuesday challenged in the High Court the January order by Assembly Speaker C P Joshi where the latter had rejected the resignations of 81 Congress and supporting MLAs who had resigned in September last year. Filing an amended writ petition on Tuesday, Rathore demanded that the […]
The PIL has also prayed to disclose the names of the MLAs who have tendered their resignations and to restrain all such members from entering into the Vidhansabha as MLAs.
A plea has been mentioned before the Supreme Court on Friday seeking a stay on the declaration of the Rajya Sabha elections result, in view of six Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAs who had defected to the Congress Party.
The Rajasthan High Court, on Wednesday, had dismissed the plea seeking for the results of the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls of the State to not be declared till the plea against the MLAs' defection was disposed of.