AAP MlA Alka lamba and BJP MlA OP Sharma could not reach to any amicable resolution regarding a dispute between the two at Delhi High Court on Friday.
After around two hours of in-chamber proceedings before Justice Manmohan Singh, the two could not arrive to any settlement, senior advocate Aman lekhi, representing Sharma told the media.
OP Sharma was suspended from the Delhi legislative Assembly for next two sessions for allegedly making derogatory remarks against lamba.
The matter will now be taken up for hearing on Friday by the court.
The court had on Wednesday asked both lamba and Sharma to appear before it on Thursday “with an open mind” to resolve the issue. The direction had come when the court was hearing a petition filed by Sharma against his suspension from the House on March 31 for next two sessions.
Speaking to the media outside the court, advocate lekhi said it was originally agreed by both sides to withdraw the statements made against each other in a verbal exchange, but later lamba did not agree to it.
He also said that a draft of a unilateral apology to be tendered by Sharma was brought by the other side, but the BJP legislator refused to accept that. lekhi further said that the decision of the Delhi legislative Assembly to suspend Sharma was “illegal, arbitrary and malafide”.
Sharma had moved the court now as a two-day special session of the Delhi legislative Assembly has commenced on Thursday. The Delhi Government had on Wednesday told the court that Sharma has not “regretted” on what he had said about lamba.
Referring to a report of an Ethics Committee of the Delhi Assembly on the issue, the Government had said that Sharma was given chances to express regret on his remarks but he had refused.
The Ethics Committee had earlier “unanimously” recommended stripping Sharma of his membership for his remarks against lamba and being “unrepentant” about it.
Sharma had earlier said “my intention was not to hurt lamba as she is like my sister, but if she felt offended I express regret over it”.