Two Congress MLAs in Madhya Pradesh have moved a petition before the Vidhan Sabha Speaker seeking disqualification of six rebel Ministers, supporters of Jyotiraditya Scindia who moved to Bengaluru, for anti-party activities. Speaker N.P. Prajapati is yet to take a decision.
The petitioners, Govind Singh and Lakhan Singh Yadav, contended that the “grotesque conduct” of the Ministers in cahoots with the BJP to devise defections from within the State Congress legislature party was a “breach and abandonment” of the party discipline.
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They requested the Speaker to disqualify Pradhuman Singh Tomar, Imarti Devi, Mahendra Singh Sisodiya, Govind Singh Rajput, Prabhuram Choudhary and Tulsiram Silawat for violating the the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, whose paragraph 2(1)(a) prescribes disqualif