ProMASS, Nov 02, 2016: The Election Commission today issued show cause notice to 27 AAP MLAs on a fresh petition seeking their disqualification for allegedly holding office of profit.
The petition filed in June, and forwarded to the Commission by Rashtrapati Bhawan last month, had sought cancellation of membership of these MLAs over the office of profit issue. The 27 MLAs include seven legislators against whom the EC is already considering a similar plea for holding the office of parliamentary secretaries.
The list also includes Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, his deputy Rakhi Birla, former deputy speaker Bandana Kumari and estranged AAP MLA and Swaraj Abhiyan leader Pankaj Pushkar. The MLAs have been asked to file their responses by November 11.
