RAJ HC ISSUES NOTICE TO PILOT & CO. OVER SPEAKER’S NOTICE

Jaipur: The issue of notice served by Rajasthan Assembly Speaker was heard by the Rajasthan High Court on Monday wherein the Court issued notices to former Dy CM Sachin Pilot and 18 MLAs of his camp seeking reply on their opinion regarding what do they have to say on the application presented for dismissal of Speaker’s notice.

A division bench of Acting CJ MM Srivastava and Justice Samir Jain has given this order on the petition of PR Meena and others which would be heard in the High Court on May 25

Advocate Vimal Choudhary, appearing for Mohanlal Nama, told that a political settlement has been reached between both the parties and the petitioner has already cast his vote in support of the trust vote in the assembly. In a way, his prayer for retaining membership in the assembly and Congress has also been approved and thus there is no justification for keeping the petition pending now. Therefore, in such a situation the petition should be dismissed in the interest of justice.

Meanwhile, on behalf of MLA PR Meena, it has been said that a side will be presented in the matter. The advocate appearing for the MLAs said that they have not received any direction from the MLAs to present their side in the matter.

With Congress party hoping to find a 'corrective approach' to politics in its Chintan Shivir in Udaipur which will be held in Udaipur from May 13 to 15, the AICC on Monday, assigned responsibilities regarding Chintan Shivir and former committees for the management of Chintan Shivir. Notably, former deputy CM Sachin Pilot has been made a member in the committee related to economic issues with P Chidamabaram as its chairman while Mallikarjun Kharge has been made chairman of committee related to political issues. Additionally, Salman Khurshid has been appointed as Chairman of Social and Empowerment Committee and Amarinder Singh Raja appointed as Chairman of Committee on Youth Affairs. Mukul Wasnik chairman and Ajay Maken will be the member in the committee regarding work. Interestingly, from Rajasthan, only Pilot has got a place in any of the committees.