Speaker's notice for Jharkhand MLAs likely
Notices will be served to dissident MLAs Kamlesh Singh, Enos Ekka and Stephen Marandi by speaker Inder Singh Namdhari on separate petitions appealing for their disqualification under the tenth schedule.
By Agencies |
RANCHI: Notices will be served to dissident MLAs Kamlesh Singh, Enos Ekka and Stephen Marandi by speaker Inder Singh Namdhari on separate petitions appealing for their disqualification under the tenth schedule.
“I have decided to serve notices on these three MLAs through courier and though newspaper advertisements,” Mr Namdhari told reporters here. “While a petition is already pending against Mr Ekka for the last one and a half years, I have received two spearate petitions against Mr Singh and Mr Marandi,” he said adding he had asked the three MLAs to be present along with their lawyers on September 11 at his court.
Asked what would he do if the trio did not appear before his court, Mr Namdhari said “I can take ex-parte decision.” Mr Namdhari said he had received a joint petition from two BJP MLAs, Saryu Roy and Dinesh Sarangi who accused NCP MLA Kamlesh Singh of violating section 102(2) of the tenth schedule by ‘switching over sides three times’.
“The two BJP leaders said Mr Singh had first joined the Shibu Soren ministry last year before joining the NDA coalition. On September 4 this year, he joined the UPA which attracts the anti-defection law,” the Speaker said quoting the duo’s petition.
In another petition, two other BJP MLAs Putkar Hembrom and Chandresh Oraon had petitioned against independent MLA Stephen Marandi seeking his disqualification under the tenth schedule as he had allegedly joined Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (democratic), which, they said was a political party.
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On Enos Ekka, Mr Namdhari said he had already held a couple of hearings on a petition filed by Jharkhand Party president N E Horo who alleged that Mr Ekka had flouted the party whip during the formation of the Arjun Munda government last year.Asked why he chose to call the court ahead of the trust vote by September 15, the Speaker said: “Strike when the iron is hot so that a message will goes across on what happens to those who frequently change sides.”
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