Rajasthan crisis live updates: HC verdict on Sachin Pilot, 18 dissident MLAs' plea tomorrow
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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Jul 23, 2020, 21:56:55 IST
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Rajasthan crisis live updates: HC verdict on Sachin Pilot, 18 dissident MLAs' plea tomorrow

In a relief for the Sachin Pilot camp, The Supreme Court today said the Rajasthan HC can pass order on rebel MLAs' plea against disqualification notice Stay with TOI for live updates
19:31 (IST) Jul 22
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot writes a letter to PM Narendra Modi regarding 'despicable attempts to destabilize elected governments'
18:50 (IST) Jul 22
Rajasthan Transport Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas on Wednesday accused the BJP-led government of using Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to target Congress government in Rajasthan. Khachariyawas said at a press conference that the BJP-led government has "shown its true colours" and "did not care for democracy". "They are using their power and authority against Ashok Gehlot and his acquaintances. We can see how earlier in Madhya Pradesh and now in Rajasthan, BJP has used ED, Income Tax (IT) and CBI," he said.
18:39 (IST) Jul 22

In 1992, a Constitution bench ruled that the Speaker has the power regarding disqualification. Chief whip of Congress party filed a petition before me & I issued showcause notices to MLAs concerned. After that, the matter was taken to court

Rajasthan Assembly Speaker CP Joshi

18:22 (IST) Jul 22
SC bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra will hear tomorrow the appeal filed by Rajasthan Speaker challenging Rajasthan High Court order requesting him to postpone disqualification proceedings against 19 rebel MLAs, including Sachin Pilot
17:55 (IST) Jul 22
Rajasthan speaker moves SC against HC order to defer disqualification proceedings till Friday

Seeking an interim stay on the high court's July 21 order, the plea said it was the duty of the top court to ensure that all constitutional authorities exercise their jurisdiction within the boundaries and respect their “respective ‘lakshman rekha' as envisaged by the Constitution itself”.

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15:19 (IST) Jul 22
Sanjay Jain, who was arrested by SOG, Rajasthan Police, has been sent to 2-day Police remand: ANI
12:33 (IST) Jul 22
Senior Adv Kapil Sibal, appearing in another case, requests CJI to list Rajasthan Speaker's appeal against HC urgently. SC says ring up concerned registrar who wil bring it to court's notice. When Sibal narrated how the HC was wrong, SC said, "don't argue the case right now."
12:17 (IST) Jul 22
Rajasthan Speaker CP Joshi files petition in Supreme Court
11:47 (IST) Jul 22
ED raids premises of Agrasen Gehlot, brother of Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, in Jodhpur and other cities in a money laundering probe related to fertiliser subsidy “wrongly claimed”. Fertiliser scam took place in 2007-09 and a case was later registered by DRI.
10:14 (IST) Jul 22
Sachin Pilot sends legal notice to Cong MLA who claimed he was offered 'bribe'

Congress leader Sachin Pilot has served a legal notice to party MLA Giriraj Malinga, for claiming that the former had offered him money to join the BJP. "Former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot has served a legal notice to Congress MLA Giriraj Malinga for his Rs 35 crore bribery allegation," a source close to Pilot said.

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09:41 (IST) Jul 22
Speaker CP Joshi has said he has directed his counsel to file SLP in Supreme Court as the Rajasthan HC is intervening even before his decision on the show cause notices to 19 Cong MLAs.
Speaker said court intervention at the stage of Speaker issuing notices will lead to "constitutional crisis".
09:29 (IST) Jul 22
Speaker has the complete authority to send a show-cause notice. I have asked my counsel to file SLP in Supreme Court: Rajasthan Assembly Speaker CP Joshi
08:49 (IST) Jul 22
Rajasthan Speaker likely to move SC today against HC order 'directing' him to postpone till July 24 the disqualification proceedings against 19 rebel Congress MLAs, including Sachin Pilot.
23:01 (IST) Jul 21
Sachin Pilot sends legal notice to Congress MLA Giriraj Malinga over horse-trading charge: Sources
20:33 (IST) Jul 21
In the view of the request of Rajasthan High Court, Speaker CP Joshi has postponed the further course of action in connection with disqualification notice sent to 19 MLAs till the evening of 24th July: Rajasthan Assembly Secretariat
18:29 (IST) Jul 21
The state government is fighting with coronavirus crisis and at the same time, a leader who was a state Congress president and a few other MLAs in collusion with the BJP were “hatching a conspiracy” to topple it, he alleged without taking the name of Pilot or any other party leader."This is intolerable and condemnable. Those betraying the party will not be able to show their faces in public," Gehlot said addressing a Congress Legislature Party meeting at a hotel here.
18:29 (IST) Jul 21
Rajasthan speaker CP Joshi is at Vidhan Sabha to discuss the high court's order with state assembly secretary. The HC has fixed July 24 to deliver the order on petition by Sachin Pilot and 18 MLAs against speaker's disqualification notice and asked speaker not to act on notices till then.
17:02 (IST) Jul 21
Do something that can work with honour: Salman Khurshid to Congress
Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid has favoured working out an honourable formula to deal with the political crisis in Rajasthan and appeared to back a rapprochement with Sachin Pilot, who has raised a banner of revolt against chief minister Ashok Gehlot. As a party man and as someone who knew the son of his very dear friend late Congress leader Rajesh Pilot, since his childhood, the former union minister said he is very sad at the turn of events in the state.