A Delhi court has dominated that he has no proper to proceed to occupy the federal government bungalow given to him after the allotment was cancelled.
Aam Adami Party (AAP) MP Raghav Chadha on Friday mentioned that the cancellation of his allotted bungalow is ‘arbitrary and unprecedented’.
In his assertion, the AAP MP has additionally alleged that the cancellation was accomplished on the “dictates of the BJP to further their political motives and vested interest”.
In a setback for AAP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha, a Delhi court has dominated that he has no proper to proceed to occupy the federal government bungalow given to him after the allotment was cancelled. The court has lifted the interim keep granted to Chadha.
“It is unprecedented in more than 70 years of history of Rajya Sabha that a sitting Rajya Sabha member is sought to be removed from his duly allotted accommodation where he has been residing for a while and more than four years of his tenure as Rajya Sabha member are still remaining,” Chadha mentioned.
He additional mentioned that there are a lot of irregularities within the order and the following steps had been taken by the Rajya Sabha Secretariat in ‘clear contravention of rules and regulations’.
“The manner of the entire exercise leaves me with no option but to believe that these have been carried out at the dictates of BJP to further their political motives and vested interest in order to scuttle and stifle the political criticism raised by the vocal parliamentarians like me,” he added.
The AAP MP additionally mentioned that the allotment of the mentioned lodging was accomplished by the Chairman of Rajya Sabha himself after considering all of the components peculiar to him.
Chadha additional mentioned that cancelling the lodging subsequently with none trigger or motive alerts that the whole suo moto train was undertaken to wrongfully goal and victimize him.
“This along with my suspension as a Member of Parliament, which was initiated by the treasury benches, leaves no doubt that the BJP is leaving no stone unturned to target vocal Members of Parliament. This amounts to unwarranted interference in the due discharge of their functions as the Representatives of the House and hits a rock bottom of vendetta politics,” he added.
To buttress his declare, Chadha identified that lots of his neighbours had been first-time MPs who had been allotted the very same lodging above their entitlement and took the names of Sudhanshu Trivedi of the BJP, Danish Ali of the Bahujan Samaj Party, Rakesh Sinha and former MP Roopa Ganguly, who was the earlier occupant of the bungalow that had been allotted to him.
“Interestingly, about 118 out of 240 Rajya Sabha Members are living in accommodations above their entitlement but selectively targeting and interfering with vocal representatives, who are giving a strong opposition to BJP on the floor of the house and maintaining a healthy democracy, is a sorry state of affairs for the nation,” Raghav Chadha added.
“Needless to say, i will continue to raise the voice of the people of Punjab and India fearlessly, irrespective of the costs involved,” the AAP chief mentioned.
Chadha was given a Type 6 bungalow in July final 12 months and had requested the Rajya Sabha Chairman for a much bigger, Type 7 lodging, which was allotted to him in September that 12 months. In March, nonetheless, the secretariat had cancelled the allotment, arguing that the first-time MP was not entitled to a bungalow of that grade.
The AAP MP was requested to vacate the bungalow, which is in central Delhi’s Pandara Road, and had moved Delhi’s Patiala House court towards the order. The court had granted an interim keep on April 18.
Lifting the keep on Friday, the Patiala House court mentioned Chadha couldn’t declare an absolute proper to occupy the bungalow.
