Resignation in the mail, Bishnoi faces disqualification
Rebel Congress MP Kuldeep Bishnoi may have publicly announced his resignation from the Lok Sabha on March 14, but the office of the Speaker is yet to receive his promised resignation letter
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: Rebel Congress MP Kuldeep Bishnoi may have publicly announced his resignation from the Lok Sabha on March 14, but the office of the Speaker is yet to receive his promised resignation letter. Instead, the son of estranged Congress veteran Bhajan Lal, now faces what his father underwent in the Haryana assembly recently: Disqualification under anti-defection law.
Mr Bishnoi has now been asked by the Lok Sabha privileges committee to appear before it on May 15, to explain why he should not be disqualified from the Lower House. The development comes after the committee completed the process of examining the Congress MP Avtar Singh Bhadana���s petition, seeking Mr Bishnoi���s disqualification from the Lower House on the ground that he had publicly associated with the Haryana Janhith Congress (BL) floated by his father.
Mr Bhajan Lal���s disqualification from the assembly also followed some Congress MLAs filing a similar petition against him. Mr. Lal is now seeking his re-election to the assembly in a bye-election in which he is pitted against a Congress candidate who happens to be, ironically, son of the late Devi Lal.
Sources in the privileges committee see little chance of Mr Bishnoi escaping the disqualification as many other members including some BSP MPs recently lost their membership of the Lok Sabha when they faced similar cases. Now it remains to be seen whether Mr Bishnoi will insist on going through the entire disqualification proceedings as his father did in Haryana assembly or quit in the last lap as another Congress rebel Natwar Singh did in the Rajya Sabha recently.
The timing of the privileges committee hearing of the Bishnoi case also coincides with Mr Akhilesh Das ��� the newly born Congress rebel ��� choosing to quit his Rajya Sabha straight away that giving a chance for the Congress managers to target him similarly.
Though Mr Bishnoi said at the time of announcing his ���resignation��� from the Lok Sabha that his resignation letter was on its way to the Speaker it never reached the destination, making many feel a ���rethink��� on his part about the nature of the exit route.
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