New Delhi: With Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) coming to grips with the political drubbing it suffered in the corporation polls, it also has a pending verdict in an office of profit case to worry about.
The pending verdict by the Election Commission (EC) in the office of profit case has the power to dissolve Delhi assembly in one go.
After the President rejected the Bill, the Delhi High Court set aside such appointments made by the state. Post that, the EC started hearing the matter to decide whether the MLAs were to be disqualified. The hearing concluded on March 27 this year, and now the ruling has been reserved.
"EC will soon announce the verdict and the ruling is expected to be in the month of May. The MLAs had stated before the EC that when HC had set their appointments aside, there were no posts remaining and hence there was no office of profit too. This is why the arguments took time" said Patel.
But Patel spoke of Kejriwal's recent statements which had made one of the election commissioners recuse from the case and how his own MLAs were going against the CM and persuaded the EC to conclude the hearing without the commissioner recusing from the hearing.
"The letter says that they did not endorse the statements put forth by Arvind Kejriwal and that EC and the hearings must be concluded in the case," said Patel.
However, AAP Spokesperson Raghav Chadha completely refuted the existence of any such letter.
"This is complete hearsay. If he has the letter, or a copy to it, then he must produce it. Unless we have the letter in hand, we cannot comment on it," said Chadha.
Chadha also said that the hearing was certainly not over on March 27 and that the Election Commission had concluded hearing "only on a certain point of law."
"There is no question of ruling in May when the hearing is still not over," said Chadha.
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