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Expelled MPs may move court
PTI | December 24, 2005 | 19:45 IST
Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party members of Parliament are considering
moving the Delhi high court against the decision claiming they have
been denied natural justice and an opportunity to be heard.
"We are seeking opinion of legal and constitutional experts over the
matter as our explusion goes against the principles of natural
justice," BJP MP from Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh Pradip Gandhi told
reporters after meeting some of his colleagues at the residence of
another "tainted" BJP MP M K�Patil in New Delhi.
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Cash for questions scam
Gandhi claimed that the Bansal Committee did not give them "enough"
time to respond to the charges levelled against them. BJP MPs Gandhi,
C P Singh and Patil met in New Delhi.
"Even in the 1951 H G Mudgal case, cited by the committee in its
report, the accused MP was given 45 days notice to respond to the
charges levelled against him," he said adding,�the entire process
leading to his (Mudgal's) expulsion was about five months.
"We were expelled within just 11 days of levelling of charges. We did
not get enough time to present our case properly before the
committee," Gandhi said adding most BJP MPs held a similar view.
Meanwhile, Bahujan Samaj Party MP Rajaram Pal claimed�he had written
letters to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath
Chatterjee when undercover journalists had offered him money to raise
questions in Parliament.
"I had also asked the Speaker to allow me to present my case before
Parliament, but my requests were not heeded to," Pal claimed.
URL for this article:
http://www.rediff.com//news/2005/dec/24sting1.htm
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Gabe Menezes.
London, England
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