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INDIAN DEMOCRACY -
OFFICE OF PROFIT TO MLA |
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Sep 08, 2016: Aam Aadmi
Party's order appointing 21 lawmakers as
parliamentary secretaries was set aside by the
high court. If the Election Commission decides that
the appointments were illegal, the lawmakers will
stand disqualified, making an election necessary in
Delhi.
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Mar 23, 2018: The Delhi
high court had set aside the Election Commission’s
disqualification of 20 AAP MLAs for holding
office-of-profit. It remanded the matter back to the
Election Commission to first decide the “all important and
seminal issue; what is meant by the expression ‘office of
profit held under the government” and then “re-examine the
factual matrix to decide whether the petitioners (MLAs) had
incurred disqualification on appointment as Parliamentary
Secretaries, without being influenced by the earlier order
or observations on the said aspect in this order”.
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Jul 24, 2018: Delhi high court
referred to a larger bench a petition filed by some Aam
Aadmi Party MLAs challenging an Election Commission (EC)
decision disallowing them to cross-examine Prashant Patel,
the petitioner who had accused them of holding
‘office-of-profit’ upon their appointment as parliamentary
secretaries by the Arvind Kejriwal government.
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