{"id":304675,"date":"2018-10-25T10:10:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304675"},"modified":"2018-10-25T10:10:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T10:10:17","slug":"president-ram-nath-kovind-dismisses-plea-to-disqualify-27-aap-mlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-ram-nath-kovind-dismisses-plea-to-disqualify-27-aap-mlas\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ram Nath Kovind dismisses plea to disqualify 27 AAP MLAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-ram-nath-kovind-dismisses-plea-to-disqualify-27-aap-mlas\/kovind-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-304676\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304676 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/kovind-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind-356x364.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind-410x420.jpg 410w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/kovind.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a>President Ram Nath Kovind has dismissed a plea to disqualify 27 ruling Aam Admi Party (AAP) MLAs of Delhi for allegedly holding office of profit by being appointed as presidents of Rogi Kalyan Samiti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The order, which is based on the recommendation of the Election Commission (EC), brings huge relief for AAP legislators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kovind signed the order dismissing the plea based on an opinion given by the EC in July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports, the EC had found no merit in the plea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a complaint filed by Vidyarthi Vibhor Anand, it was alleged that AAP MLAs were made the presidents and were holding the senior most position in the Rogi Kalyan Samiti to enjoy the office of profit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The complaint had sought that the AAP MLAs be removed and should be disqualified from the assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind has dismissed a plea to disqualify 27 ruling Aam Admi Party (AAP) MLAs of Delhi for allegedly holding office of profit by being appointed as presidents of Rogi Kalyan Samiti. The order, which is based on the recommendation of the Election Commission (EC), brings huge relief for AAP legislators. Kovind signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[659,429,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304678,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304675\/revisions\/304678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}