EC notices to 8 Puducherry Legislatures get notice for holding office of profit
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EC notices to 8 Puducherry Legislatures get notice for holding office of profit
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Puducherry: The Election Commission of India has issued notices to eight Puducherry MLAs, including six ruling Congress and two DMK legislators, who will be present in person on 27th September personally or through legal representatives.
ECI's directions comes following the complaints from leader of the AIADMK (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma) and former legislator Om Sakthi Sekar who sought the disqualification of eight legislators who are holding office of profit in contravention of the Puducherry Members of the Legislative Assembly (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1994, and its subsequent amendments enacted in terms of section 14 of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963. He had approached the President of India to consider the matter, following which the President referred the matter to ECI.
According to the notice sent by the ECI, on 2 September 2017, the President had sought the views of the Election Commission of India on the complaint, after which the commission had sought an explanation from eight legislators. Although the legislators submitted their interpretation to the ECI on July 12, 2017, the commission found it not satisfactory.
The commission once again sent notice to legislators seeking more clarifications from them and to appear before the commission on September 27. ECI had also warned that action will be initiated against the eight legislators without any prior intimation if they fail to appear before the commission. While talking to reporters here Mr Sekar said that the legislators would be disqualified soon as they failed to give a satisfactory explanation to the commission.
"When the legislators are disqualified, the Narayansamy government could no longer continue in power as they will lose the majority," said the former legislator.
