Cong to approach courts for disqualification of MLAs involved in ‘anti-party’ activities

Guwahati: Congress general secretary in-charge of Assam, Jitendra Singh, on Sunday said the party will approach the courts for disqualification of its MLAs who are involved in “anti-party” activities after the assembly speaker “failed” to act on its petitions to cancel their membership of the house.
“We have already written to the speaker seeking disqualification of Congress MLAs indulging in anti-party activities.That the speaker is not acting against them shows that the BJP govt is not following rules,” Singh said, addressing a press conference here.
He said the party will now approach the high court and even the Supreme Court, if needed, to get these legislators disqualified.
The state’s principal opposition party has submitted multiple petitions to assembly speaker Biswajit Daimary seeking disqualification of at least five MLAs for various “anti-party” activities like lending support to the govt, voting against party nominee in Rajya Sabha polls and campaigning against the party candidate in Lok Sabha elections.
On the recent show-cause notice to Goalpara (west) MLA Abdul Rashid Mandal, Singh said, “There was a complaint against him and he was served a show-cause notice. He has given his reply. It is being studied and follow-up action will be taken.”
AICC general secretary Ajoy Kumar, also speaking at the same press meet, claimed that Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma wants to return to the Congress, which he had left for the BJP in 2015.
“We hear that he wants to return and is evaluating the options, once Narendra Modi loses this election. But the Congress will never accept a turncoat like him,” Kumar, the party in-charge for Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, claimed.
Alleging large-scale corruption against Sarma, he said, “I have come from the second most corrupt state (Odisha) to the most corrupt state (Assam) in the country.”
He claimed that the BJP-led govt has “failed” the state on all fronts, with rising unemployment and corruption in the name of building roads and other infrastructure, among others.
“Unemployment has increased by 7% on one hand, and liquor shops are mushrooming on the other hand. The youth, who have no jobs, are getting addicted to the easily available liquor. Sarma has become the ‘liquor man of India’,” Kumar alleged.PTI