The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday unattached five Haryana MLAs who defected from Haryana Janhit Congress and joined the Congress in 2009.
The ruling has put the five MLAs in a spot. However, the fact that these five have been unattached from Congress will not really bother the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government. The five MLAs will also now not be able to hold any office. Four of these five will have to give up their ministerial berths. Vinod Bhayana is chief parliamentary secretary, and so is Zile Ram Sharma.
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Omar to remain j&k CM till 2014, declares nc
Jammu, Dec. 20: The ruling National Conference (NC) on Tuesday said Omar Abdullah will remain the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir till 2014.
“Till 2014, Omar will remain the chief minister and will continue to serve you (people),” political adviser to the CM Davinder Singh Rana told a public meeting at Nagrota on the outskirts of Jammu city.
Congress workers had raked up the issue of rotational chief ministership during their meeting with Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi when he visited the state. — PTI