Lok Sabha’s 7-day deadline for TMC rebels to reply to disqualification push
The Lok Sabha secretariat has given a seven-day deadline for 20 Trinamool Congress MPs, who defected to the Nationalist Citizens Party of India, to respond to a disqualification petition. The petition, filed by Trinamool’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, requests their removal from office due to defection. The notice, issued on August 25, invokes Rule 6 of the Members of Lok Sabha (Disqualification on Ground of Defection) Rules, 1985, which outlines the procedure for serving the notice and its disposal.
Banerjee met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on August 12 to discuss the matter after sending a reminder on July 27. The 20 MPs named in the petition include Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Satabdi Roy, and others.
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