Two rebel AAP legislators, facing disqualification under the anti-defection law, were given a week’s time by the Delhi Assembly Speaker on Tuesday to submit their replies over joining the BJP.
The two MLAs — Devender Sehrawat and Anil Bajpai — joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, although they maintained that they did not fill the primary membership form of the party.
On Tuesday, the two lawmakers were represented by their counsels at a personal hearing before Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel.
“I have been given a week’s time by the speaker to submit my reply,” Gandhinagar MLA Bajpai Sources said the speaker also gave a week’s time to Sehrawat for filing his reply.
Both the MLAs had sought more time to reply to the charge of joining the BJP on Monday, saying that the newspaper reports furnished by complainant Saurabh Bhardwaj along with his petition were not legible.