Plea filed in HC to stop 6 defecting' BSP MLAs function as Cong legislators

Justice Goyal, however, had not accepted the petitioners' plea to grant interim relief and put a stay on the six BSP MLAs' participation

BJP MLA Madan Dilawar and the BSP on Tuesday moved a division bench of the Rajasthan High Court challenging an order of its single-judge bench which refused to put a stay on the functioning of the six BSP "defecting" MLAs as Congress legislators.

The two parties had earlier moved the high court challenging the state Assembly Speaker C P Joshi's September 2019 decision to allow the induction of the six BSP MLAs to the ruling Congress.

On the petitions by BJP MLA Dilawar and the Bahujan Samaj Party, the single-judge bench of Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal had on July 30