Sandeep Saxena, senior deputy election commissioner said the final roll would be published on January 6, 2020 and all necessary preparatory steps to be taken to conduct the elections before the expiry of the term of the current legislative assembly on February 22, 2020.
The action came as the house adopted a report of the Petition Committee, headed by ruling Aam Aadmi Party lawmaker Saurabh Bhardwaj, pointing out irregularities on the part of three senior SDMC officials regarding the management of a park in Greater Kailash in south Delhi.
At the time of her ejection, Lamba, the MLA from Chandni Chowk, was criticising the Delhi government and alleged that at least two families had been forced to purchase medicines from private chemists while they were being treated at the capital's government-run G.B. Pant Hospital.
During the discussion, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislators blamed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Centre for the demolition, the BJP legislators supported the resolution.
The Assembly session began by offering condolences to former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and former Union Minister Sushma Swaraj, both of whom passed away recently.
The Speaker said that MLA Jarnail Singh’s “proposed amendment,” seeking withdrawal of Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna over the 1984 ant-Sikh riots, in the “original resolution” was not adopted as he did not inform the House before doing so.
The Delhi Assembly on Friday passed a resolution demanding that Bharat Ratna awarded to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi be withdrawn over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, which it termed as a "genocide".
Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told reporters that the legislators will also discuss the alleged deletion of names in voters list in the city.
While referring the matter, the Speaker said that the word used by the BJP MLA is "objectionable" and asked the Privileges Committee to present its report as soon as possible.
The chief minister termed the ongoing sealing drive a "dangerous attack" on traders and said an all party-delegation, including his cabinet colleagues, would meet the Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee to resolve the issue.
Hours before the meeting, Prakash in a letter to Kejriwal, said he would attend it to discuss important budget matters, assuming that the chief minister ensures "no physical attack and verbal assault" on officers attending the meet.
Kejriwal unveiled portraits of 69 eminent personalities including freedom fighters, revolutionaries and heroes on Republic Day, to be put in the Assembly's galleries.
The ECI recommended to the President the disqualification of 20 legislators who were appointed as parliamentary secretaries by the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi.
Speaking to media after EC’s recommendation to disqualify 20 AAP MLA in Delhi, Saurabh said that the Chief Election Commissioner AK Joti was “returning favour to PM Narendra Modi for appointing him”.
Three Rajya Sabha seats from Delhi will fall vacant by the end of this month when the tenure of Congress members Janardhan Dwivedi, Parvez Hashmi and Karan Singh ends.
AAP candidate Ram Chander won Bawana bypoll by garnering 59,886 votes while BJP's Ved Parkash finished at distant second with 35,834 votes.
Counting of votes for the high-stakes Bawana bye-election in Delhi will be held tomorrow.
AAP leader Sanjay Singh, however, called the development ‘vendetta politics’.
“Arrogance of Delhi government and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is responsible for the violence and anarchy in the Delhi Assembly today (Wednesday),” Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Manoj Tiwari said.
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