<p>20 AAP MLAs, who were disqualified as Delhi Assembly MLAs, have withdrawn their plea from Delhi high court seeking a stay on Election Commission&#39;s recommendation for their disqualification.</p>

<p>AAP MLAs&#39; counsel said that their plea has become infructuous as the President has accepted EC&#39;s recommendation and a notification disqualifying them has been issued. However, counsel told the Delhi high court that he will file an appeal after examining President&#39;s order disqualifying 20 MLAs in office of profit case.</p>

<p>The AAP MLAs withdrew their pleas a day after the president of India, Ram Nath Kovind, approved the disqualification of the MLAs following EC&#39;s recommendation. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

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<p>The Election Commission had recommended their disqualification for holding the post of parliamentary secretaries between March 2015 and September 2016, considered as holding an office of profit.</p>

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<p>Although the Arvind Kejriwal party has decided to take recourse to legal action, it has also asked its disqualified members to be prepared to face legal and electoral action.</p>

<p>The disqualified MLAs include Alka Lamba, Adarsh Shastri, Sanjeev Jha, Rajesh Gupta, Kailash Gehlot, Vijendra Garg, Praveen Kumar, Sharad Kumar, Madan Lal Khufiya, Shiv Charan Goyal, Sarita Singh, Naresh Yadav, Rajesh Rishi, Anil Kumar, Som Dutt, Avtar Singh, Sukhvir Singh Dala, Manoj Kumar and Nitin Tyagi.</p>


Although the Arvind Kejriwal party has decided to take recourse to legal action initially, it has also asked its disqualified members to be prepared to face legal and electoral action.

20 AAP MLAs, who were disqualified as Delhi Assembly MLAs, have withdrawn their plea from Delhi high court seeking a stay on Election Commission's recommendation for their disqualification. AAP MLAs' counsel said that their plea has become infructuous as the President has accepted EC's recommendation and a notification disqualifying them has been issued. However, counsel told the Delhi high court that he will file an appeal after examining President's order disqualifying 20 MLAs in office of profit case. The AAP MLAs withdrew their pleas a day after the president of India, Ram Nath Kovind, approved the disqualification of the MLAs following EC's recommendation. #AAP MLAs withdraw plea from #DelhiHC seeking stay on EC's recommendation for their #disqualification. — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) January 22, 2018 × The Election Commission had recommended their disqualification for holding the post of parliamentary secretaries between March 2015 and September 2016, considered as holding an office of profit. #AAP MLAs' counsel says their plea has become infructuous as Prez has accepted #EC recommendation and a notification disqualifying them has been issued. — Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) January 22, 2018 × Although the Arvind Kejriwal party has decided to take recourse to legal action, it has also asked its disqualified members to be prepared to face legal and electoral action. The disqualified MLAs include Alka Lamba, Adarsh Shastri, Sanjeev Jha, Rajesh Gupta, Kailash Gehlot, Vijendra Garg, Praveen Kumar, Sharad Kumar, Madan Lal Khufiya, Shiv Charan Goyal, Sarita Singh, Naresh Yadav, Rajesh Rishi, Anil Kumar, Som Dutt, Avtar Singh, Sukhvir Singh Dala, Manoj Kumar and Nitin Tyagi.

AAP MLAs withdraw plea seeking stay on Election Commission's recommendation for their disqualification

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