{"id":324878,"date":"2020-07-22T05:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=324878"},"modified":"2020-07-22T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:00:10","slug":"rajasthan-political-crisis-speaker-to-move-sc-as-pilot-camp-gets-breather-till-july-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-political-crisis-speaker-to-move-sc-as-pilot-camp-gets-breather-till-july-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan political crisis: Speaker moves SC as Pilot camp gets breather till July 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324879 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/cp-joshi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/cp-joshi.jpg 463w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/cp-joshi-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/>Speaker CP Joshi on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court against the Rajasthan High Court&#8217;s order to defer action against the Pilot camp.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Joshi, who served disqualification notices to rebel MLAs for &#8220;anti-party activities&#8221; last week, was asked not to take action till Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, the Rajasthan High Court said it will pronounce its decision on July 24 on a petition filed by Sachin Pilot and his team of rebels and requested the speaker not to take any action against the MLAs till then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Joshi said, \u201cthe Constitution has well-defined the Speaker\u2019s role and the speaker has the complete authority to issue a show-cause notice.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The dissident MLAs have challenged the Speaker\u2019s notices in court saying the notices under anti-defection law were not maintainable as voicing dissent does not amount to defection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amid the tussle between Sachin Pilot and Chief Minister\u00a0Ashok Gehlot, the Congress had sacked Pilot as the Rajasthan deputy chief minister and the president of the state Congress unit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision was taken after Pilot along with his MLAs skipped the Congress Legislature Party meetings.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker CP Joshi on Wednesday approached the Supreme Court against the Rajasthan High Court&#8217;s order to defer action against the Pilot camp. Joshi, who served disqualification notices to rebel MLAs for &#8220;anti-party activities&#8221; last week, was asked not to take action till Friday.\u00a0 On Tuesday, the Rajasthan High Court said it will pronounce its decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[9837,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324878"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324884,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324878\/revisions\/324884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}