Chandigarh, October 19
Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana KP Singh has finally accepted the resignation of Bholath MLA Sukhpal Khaira, almost three years after he first put in his papers in January 2019.
With this, the Bholath Vidhan Sabha seat has fallen vacant. But there will be no byelection, as the elections to Vidhan Sabha are scheduled in another three months.
Officials say Khaira had again submitted his resignation in June, but was told to submit the same in the prescribed format, which he did today. No decision has yet been taken on the resignation of the three other AAP MLAs, who had resigned and joined the Congress earlier this year. They are Nazar Singh, Pirmal Singh and Jagdev Singh Kamalu. Khaira had switched sides and joined the AAP before the 2017 elections and won as an MLA. He was also appointed as the Leader of Opposition by his party. But his differences with party chief Arvind Kejriwal widened within a few months and he rebelled. — TNS
3 years on, Speaker accepts Sukhpal Khaira’s resignation
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