In a huge blow to Aam Admi Party, President Ram Nath Kovind today approved the disqualification of 20 MLAs for holding the ‘Office of Profit’.
The Election Commission had sent its recommendation to disqualify the MLAs to the President on 19 January. The ECI had said that the MLAs are appointed as parliamentary secretaries, which was “unconstitutional”.
Initially, the profit for office case was against 21 MLAs before Rajouri Garden MLA Jarnail Singh resigned from his post to contest elections against former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal in 2017 state election.
On September 8, 2016, the high court had set aside the appointment of the 21 AAP MLAs as parliamentary secretaries. The court had observed that the order to appoint them as parliamentary secretaries was given without the concurrence of the then Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.
Here is the complete list of AAP MLAs:
Praveen Kumar: Jangpura MLA
Sharad Kumar Chauhan: Narela MLA
Madan Lal Khufiya: Kasturba Nagar MLA
Shiv Charan Goyal: Moti Nagar MLA
Sarita Singh: Rohtas Nagar MLA
Anil Kumar Bajpai: Gandhi Nagar MLA
Som Dutt: Sadar Bazar MLA
Avtar Singh: Kalkaji MLA
Nitin Tyagi: Laxmi Nagar MLA
Jarnail Singh: Tilak Nagar MLA
Adarsh Shastri: Dwarka MLA
Alka Lamba: Chandni Chowk MLA
Sanjeev Jha: Burari MLA
Kailash Gehlot: Najafgarh MLA
Vijendra Garg: Rajinder Nagar MLA
Naresh Yadav: Mehrauli MLA
Rajesh Gupta: Wazirpur MLA
Rajesh Rishi: Janakpuri MLA
Sukhvir Singh Dala: Mundka MLA
Manoj Kumar: Kondli MLA