Himachal Pradesh Crisis: Speaker disqualifies 6 rebel Congress MLAs

Team Finance Saathi

29/Feb/2024

Himachal Pradesh Assembly speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania on February 29 disqualified the six rebel Congress MLAs who cross-voted during the Rajya Sabha elections.
The six legislators who cross-voted, along with three independents, during Rajya Sabha polls have not been disqualified for cross-voting but for violating the whip and skipping the budget session.

The disqualified MLAs are Rajinder Rana, Sudhir Sharma, Inder Lakhanpal, Devinder Kumar, Ravi Thakur, and Chetanya Sharma. The six leaders cease to be members of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly with immediate effect, speaker Pathania was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

“Six MLAs, who contested on Congress symbol, attracted provisions of anti-defection law against themselves. I declare that the six people cease to be members of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly with immediate effect," Pathania said. The Congress party had moved Himachal Pradesh Speaker seeking disqualification of the six rebel MLAs.

The crisis deepened on Wednesday with the resignation of Vikramaditya Singh from the council of ministers in Himachal Pradesh. Later in the day Singh said he was not pressing for the resignation yet.

With the disqualification of six MLAs, the strength of the house is reduced to 62. For now the Congress the number of MLAs with the Congress is 34, which is two more than the majority mark 32.

Earlier on Thursday, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has called a 'breakfast meeting' of all Congress MLAs on Thursday in Shimla. "It is an important meeting. Let's see what happens...This is an informal meeting," party MLA Ashish Butail said.

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