The party's Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari told a press conference that these MLAs were appointed as co-chairpersons of District Disaster Management Committees on April 2015.
These appointments were in contravention of Section 14, 25, 2(h) of the Disaster Management Act of the Delhi government under which only municipal councillors are lawfully eligible for the posts, he said.
However, a senior Delhi government official said Lt Governor Najeeb Jung, through a notification dated January 19, 2015, had made it clear that both councillors and MLAs could be appointed as co-chairpersons.
The names of around six of the MLAs listed by Tiwari also figure among the 21 MLAs who were appointed as Parliamentary Secretaries by the government. The Election Commission is currently seized of the matter.
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