New Delhi: The Delhi government Bill to exclude the post of Parliamentary Secretary from the office of profit has been refused assent by the President Pranab Mukherjee, raising questions over the fate of 21 AAP MLAs, who have been appointed to the posts.
The refusal puts a question mark over the membership of 21 Aam Aadmi Party MLAs, who have been appointed Parliamentary Secretaries by the Arvind Kejriwal government.
Here is the list of 21 AAP MLAs whose membership may be cancelled:-
1 Praveen Kumar was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Education Minister
2 Sharad Kumar was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Revenue Minister
3 Adarsh Shastri was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Information and Technology Minister
4 Madan Lal was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Vigilance Minister
5 Shiv Charan Goel was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Finance Minister
6 Sanjeev Jha was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Transport Minister
7 Sarita Singh was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Employment Minister
8 Naresh Yadav was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Labour Minister
9 Jarnail Singh (Tilaknagar) was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Development
10 Rajesh Gupta was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Health Minister
11 Rajesh Rishi was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Health Minister
12 Anil Kumar Bajpai was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Health Minister
13 Som Dutt was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Industries Minister
14 Avtar Singh Kalka as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Gurudwara elections
15 Vijender Garg Vijay was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of PWD
16 Jarnail Singh (Rajauri Garden) was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Power
17 Kailash Gahlot was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Law
18 Alka Lamba was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Tourism
19 Manoj Kumar was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Food and Civil Supplies
20 Nitin Tyagi was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Women and Child and Social Welfare
21 Sukhvir Singh was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to Minister of Languages and Welfare of SC/ST/OBC respectively
Petitions have been filed with the President seeking disqualification of the these MLAs on the ground that they occupied office of profit in violation of Constitution.
