himachal-mlas-move-hc-on-rejection-of-resignations

Three Independent MLAs in Himachal Pradesh moved the High Court on Wednesday, challenging the Assembly speaker's refusal to accept their resignations. 

The MLAs, Hoshyar Singh, Ashish Sharma, and KL Thakur, submitted their resignations to the speaker on March 22, 2024, and joined the BJP the next day in New Delhi. They were summoned by speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania to appear before him on Wednesday.  

Hoshyatr Singh further speaking on the matter cited, "Today we have to file a reply before the speaker and our case was listed in the High Court today as our case was delayed we had submitted our resignations on March 22nd and it should have been accepted on the same day. We have pleaded in the High Court that the Supreme Court had earlier given verdicts on similar cases in the cases of Karnataka and Mizoram."  

"The decision has to be given by the speaker in one day, they have delayed it and this is not good for the Constitution. We shall submit our reply to the speaker. Their intention is just to delay as they don't want the elections to be held early if they have disqualified the Congress legislators in 12 hours and why they are not accepting our resignation. There is no genuine reason for delay our case is listed in the HP High Court for April 24th."  

The case is scheduled for April 24th in the HP High Court. 

Alongside 6 Congress MLAs (now disqualified), these 3 Independents had voted for BJP nominee Harsh Mahajan during the Rajya Sabha elections in February, leading to the defeat of Congress candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi.