The Congress has asked Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker NP Prajapati to disqualify six state ministers of the Kamal Nath Cabinet as MLAs, w...
The Congress has asked Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker NP Prajapati to disqualify six state ministers of the Kamal Nath Cabinet as MLAs, who along with 16 others, had resigned on Tuesday, NDTV reported on Thursday. The Kamal Nath-led Congress government faced an upheaval after party leader Jyotiraditya Scindia resigned, following which 22 MLAs also quit.
Congress leader JP Dhanopia filed six separate petitions against the ministers under Article 191(2) of the Constitution, which states that a person shall be disqualified as Member of Legislative Assembly or Legislative Council if she/he is disqualified under the Tenth Schedule. The petitions were filed against Mahendra Singh Sisodiya, Imarti Devi, Tulsi Silawat, Prabhuram Chaudhary, Govind Singh Rajput and Praduman Singh Tomar.
“As per the Tenth Schedule, a member gets disqualified if that member has voluntarily given up the membership or not followed the whip of the party,” Dhanopia said. “These six ministers are members of the Congress party, who won the assembly polls in 2018 on Congress’s poll symbol. But they are now colluding with the BJP, so separate petitions have been filed seeking their disqualification from the House.”
Scindia’s exit from the party and the subsequent resignations of 22 MLAs has left the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh on the verge...
