New Delhi: The Election Commission will hold a personal hearing from July 14 for 21 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators, who have been made parliamentary secretaries and are facing the risk of disqualification from the Assembly, in the Office of Profit case.
The 21 AAP legislators had sought a personal hearing before the poll body in their reply to a notice by the Election Commission last month. The petition for their disqualification was made over their appointment as parliamentary secretaries, by lawyer Prashant Patel.
Maintaining that there was no "pecuniary benefit" associated with the post, the legislators, in their response to the poll body, also said that that parliamentary secretary is a "post" without any remuneration or power.
Through the Bill, which has been forwarded to the Centre by Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, AAP wants "retrospective" exemption for the parliamentary secretaries from disqualification provisions.
With the President refusing assent to the bill early this month, the 21 ruling party legislators at present have no legal backing for holding the post of parliamentary secretaries.
The Lieutenant Governor has said that the office of parliamentary secretary is defined as an "office of profit if one looks at the statutes of Delhi" and that as per the GNCT Act, the city can have only one parliamentary secretary attached to the office of the chief minister.
The 21 AAP legislators had sought a personal hearing before the poll body in their reply to a notice by the Election Commission last month. The petition for their disqualification was made over their appointment as parliamentary secretaries, by lawyer Prashant Patel.
Maintaining that there was no "pecuniary benefit" associated with the post, the legislators, in their response to the poll body, also said that that parliamentary secretary is a "post" without any remuneration or power.
Through the Bill, which has been forwarded to the Centre by Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, AAP wants "retrospective" exemption for the parliamentary secretaries from disqualification provisions.
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With the President refusing assent to the bill early this month, the 21 ruling party legislators at present have no legal backing for holding the post of parliamentary secretaries.
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The Lieutenant Governor has said that the office of parliamentary secretary is defined as an "office of profit if one looks at the statutes of Delhi" and that as per the GNCT Act, the city can have only one parliamentary secretary attached to the office of the chief minister.
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