Twenty AAP MlAs, who have been disqualified as legislators for holding office of profit, on Monday withdrew their petitions in the Delhi High Court challenging the Election Commission’s (EC) recommendation which has received Presidential assent, saying they would move fresh pleas in the matter.
The MlAs, whose appointment as parliamentary secretaries was questioned, told the HC that they would move fresh petitions against their disqualification from the Delhi Assembly, as their earlier pleas became infructuous after President Ram Nath Kovind put a stamp of approval on the EC’s recommendation.
Justice Rekha Palli allowed the MlAs to withdraw their applications terming it “dismissed as withdrawn”, after it was informed by the EC that it had already sent its opinion to the President on January 19, before the MlAs had moved the court.