No Action against Sachin Pilot and 18 MLAs till Friday High Court Tells Speaker

Rajasthan High Court has said no action will be taken against Sachin Pilot and 18 other rebel MLAs till July 24. Court reserves its order till then. Senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the Pilot camp, today told the High Court that there is nothing on record to show the Rajasthan Speaker “applied his mind” while serving disqualification notices to Sachin Pilot and 18 other Congress rebel MLAs. 

Rohatgi further argued that the rebels were granted less time for reply than as stated in rules and that there are no reasons recorded for issuing the notice. Meanwhile, breaking his silence on the Rajasthan crisis, Rahul Gandhi listed the alleged “attempt to topple” the government in the state as among the Centre’s “achievements” in the COVID-19 era.