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Himachal Pradesh Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla has returned to the state authorities a Invoice that bars legislators disqualified beneath the anti-defection legislation from drawing pensions and sought clarifications on a number of counts.
The Himachal Pradesh Legislative Meeting (Allowances and Pension of Members (Modification) Invoice, 2024, was handed on September 4 final yr. It prevents the members of the Home disqualified beneath the tenth Schedule of the Structure — anti-defection legislation — from drawing pensions.
The Invoice impacts six former Congress MLAs, who had been disqualified by the Speaker for defying the whip and abstaining from the Home throughout discussions on lower motions and passing of the Finances in February final yr.
Shukla has despatched again the invoice to the state authorities with some objections on which clarifications have been sought, an official stated.
In line with sources, there are apprehensions that the invoice can’t be carried out with retrospective impact.
The opposition BJP had objected to the Invoice, stating that it smacks of “political revenge” and can’t be carried out with retrospective impact. The Congress leaders had maintained that the six MLAs had betrayed the get together and that the Invoice was geared toward strengthening the democratic values and deterring legislators from defection.
The six former MLAs who can be impacted as a result of Invoice are Sudhir Sharma, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Rajinder Rana, Devinder Kumar Bhutto, Chetanya Sharma and Ravi Thakur. All of them had voted in favour of BJP nominee Harsh Mahajan throughout the Rajya Sabha elections held in February.
All six had contested the bypolls on BJP tickets earlier this yr. Whereas Sudhir Sharma and Lakhanpal received re-elected, the opposite 4 misplaced.
Himachal Pradesh is the primary state within the nation to cross such a invoice beneath which, “An individual shall not be entitled to pension beneath the Act, if he has been disqualified at any level of time beneath the tenth schedule of the Structure”.
The assertion of object and causes of the Invoice handed by voice vote stated it was necessitated as there was no provision within the 1971 Act to discourage the defection of members, defend the mandate given by the folks, protect democratic values and deterrence in direction of “constitutional sin”.
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