The six rebel MLAs Rajinder Rana, Sudhir Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Devinder Kumar Bhutto and Chetanya Sharma had approached the Supreme Court by filing a writ petition challenging their disqualification by the Speaker.
A bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Dipankar Datta and Prashant Kumar Mishra posted the matter for March 18, as advocate appearing for the petitioner disqualified lawmakers informed the bench that they are led by senior advocate Harish Salve who was unable to join the hearing.
The two factions had filed disqualification petitions against each other.
Gowrishankar will have to appeal to the Supreme Court and get a stay on the High Court's judgment within one month of the order.
Under section 10A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, an elected member can be disqualified by the EC for failure to lodge account of election expenses. A member of Rajya Sabha was disqualified by the EC in July 1991 and the Rajya Sabha Secretariat issued the notification of disqualification. The matter was not referred to the President.
Vaishnaw said, "Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified because of his arrogance. He thinks it is his birthright to rule this country and that is causing all this cognitive dissonance in his mind."
The Congress leader asserted that he won’t back down from asking questions on the relationship between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and billionaire Gautam Adani.
Congress leaders, led by party's state president Brijlal Khabri, took out a march from the party office to Raj Bhawan to register their protest against the move.
Dr Cheema said Parliamentary traditions should be maintained at all costs and an impression should not be given that the Opposition is being suppressed in any manner whatsoever.
The Congress on Friday questioned Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from the Lok Sabha, and said that only President has the powers to do so.
