Ashutosh says Prez order 'unconstitutional''dangerous for democracy'
Ashutosh says Prez order 'unconstitutional''dangerous for democracy' : As the AAP has moved to the Delhi High Court seeking a stay on EC's recommendation and the court has listed the case for a hearing for today.
Whereas, the BJP welcomed the President’s decision and demanded resignation of Delhi CM on moral grounds, the Congress alleged that there was a deal between the BJP and the AAP due to which the EC delayed the disqualification recommendation by a month.
Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal tweeted, "There was some logic when God gave us 67 seats. The Almighty stood behind us in our every step, tweet says.
“Otherwise we would have been nothing... Just don't stray away from the path of truth."
He told a gathering in Najafgarh, "They are trying to harass us by all means... They got CBI raid done at my office, but after 24-hour search they only found my four mufflers. Our MLAs were arrested."
"The L-G had called 400 files of our government, but when they did not find anything against us... they today disqualified our 20 MLAs."
In an interesting move, BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha and Shatrughan Sinha supported the AAP with the former saying the decision depicts "tughluqshahi" of the worst order.
"President's order disqualifying the 20 AAP MLAs is complete miscarriage of natural justice. No hearing, no waiting for High Court's order. It is Tughluqshahi of the worst order," Yashwant Sinha tweeted.
Shatrughan Sinha said the "politics of vendetta" against the AAP would not last long.
AAP leader Ashutosh said the president's order is "unconstitutional" and "dangerous for democracy." 
Saurab Bharadwaj, chief spokesperson of the party's Delhi unit alleged the chief election commissioner and the election commissioners are expected to behave in an independent and impartial manner and not as "political stooges of their masters who appoint them". "The Election Commission is a constitutional institution of continuity and not a retired members club of a group of political appointees," he said.
"A first reading of the Narendra Modi government appointed Election Commission's biased opinion and subsequent notification issued by the BJP's central government to hastily disqualify 20 elected Delhi MLAs shows the constitutional authorities today are behaving like handmaidens of the central government," he alleged.
The EC had on Friday recommended to Kovind that the 20 MLAs were liable for disqualification for holding offices of profit between March 13, 2015, and September 8, 2016. A government notification today said the president has disqualified 20 AAP MLAs for holding office of profit.
- PTC News
