Chandigarh, May 20
Over four months after the Vidhan Sabha membership of former Congress MLA from Kalka Pardeep Chaudhary was revoked by the Haryana Speaker following his conviction by a Nalagarh court, the membership was restored on Thursday following advice by the state’s Advocate General (AG).
“The membership of Chaudhary has been restored today following legal advice from AG on the petition filed by the former legislator. A notification to his effect will be issued today and Election Commission will be informed accordingly,” Speaker Gian Chand Gupta said here.
Gupta, however, clarified that the membership would be restored with effect from April 19, the date on which Himachal Pradesh High Court stayed the conviction and not January 14, the date his membership was revoked.
There is no clarity on their plans but two JJP MLAs Jogi Ram Sihag and Devender Babli had earlier announced support for the farmers’ agitation. Even Kanda, on the first day of the session, had expressed to the Speaker his inability to attend the session on account of a function at Sirsa.
All the three parties are not taking any chances all have issued three-line whips to their MLAs to vote along the party lines on Wednesday.
Fearing that some of the party MLAs could support the no-confidence motion, the Dushyant Chautala-led JJP on Tuesday issued a “three-line whip” asking its MLAs to support the coalition government. The three-line whip can be violated only if one-third of the JJP legislators decide to cast their vote against the party line.
CHANDIGARH: In a big setback to Congress, Haryana assembly speaker Gian Chand Gupta on Saturday disqualified Kalka MLA Pardeep Chaudhary, just two days after the legislator was convicted in a 2011 rioting case, reports Manvir Saini.
Chaudhary along with 14 others was convicted on Thursday by the court of judicial magistrate in Nalagarh in Himachal’s Solan district for rioting. All of them were sentenced to three-year imprisonment and fined Rs 85,500 each.
The assembly notified the vacancy in Kalka seat and with this the total number of MLAs decreased to 88 in the 90-member House.
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IN an exemplary service of justice, though coming almost a decade after the incident of assault and rioting near Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh, 15 accused persons have been declared guilty and awarded penalty. The verdict assumes significance and has among the convicts a powerful politician the MLA from Kalka in Haryana, Pardeep Chaudhary. While when the FIR was registered at the Nalagarh police station in 2011, Chaudhary was an INLD MLA from Kalka, he has since shifted to the Congress, making the move a couple of weeks before being again elected on the party ticket in October 2019. His might in the area is evident from the fact that he wrested the Kalka Assembly seat from the sitting BJP MLA, Latika Sharma.
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