President rejects call for disqualification of 27 PAA MPs | Delhi News

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind rejected the petition of 27 AAP deputies for holding a "profit-making" post, after the election commission declared the posts in question – Presidents of patients – were exempted. OoP status.

The petition referred to the rogi kalyan samitis constituted by the Delhi government. The decision was based on an opinion issued by the Electoral Commission in July that said the office was not subject to the "profit bureau" under the provisions of the Delhi Exclusion Act of 1997.

The EC mainly relies on the Delhi Government's response to the motion for recusal presented by Vibhor Anand on 21 June 2016. The NCT Government of Delhi, in its communication to the EC, explained clearly that Rogi Kalyan Samitis had been constituted by and that their chairmen are not entitled to any remuneration and therefore fall within the exemption provided for in point 14 of the Schedule to the Delhi Law on the Elimination of Forfeiture.

The law provides that the president, vice-president and members of the Delhi Hospital Advisory Committee are exempt from the "profit function". The Delhi government informed EC that the exemption granted to the hospital advisory board was also applicable to Rogi Kalyan Samiti, "the two being the same having an organic link". EC also pointed out that an exemption was provided for the functions of chairman, director or member of a statutory or non-statutory body established by the Delhi Government. Rogi Kalyan Samiti is such an organism.

The Electoral Commission, in its advice to the President on July 10, 2018, stated that after reviewing the petition and the Delhi Government's response thereto, it concluded that the 27 PAA deputies Had "prohibition, under section 14 of the Schedule to the 1997 Act on the Elimination of Forfeiture of Delhi, of the Capital Government Act 1991 national territory of Delhi.

In an order dated October 15, the President of India stated that after considering the matter in light of the opinion expressed by EC, "the motion dated June 21 2016, filed by Shri Vibhor Anand, on the issue of Mrs. Alka Lamba and 26 other members of the legislature of Delhi are not maintainable.

This order is intended to relieve the government Arvind Kejriwal and AAP, who is also involved in another for-profit case against 20 deputies again heard by EC. The Commission sought written submissions from the respondent 's members in the case, which were received as a voluminous response of almost 5,000 pages.