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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Jul 17, 2020, 17:45:21 IST
Rajasthan political crisis live updates: HC stops action by Rajasthan speaker till Tuesday, hearing to continue on Monday
The tussle in Rajasthan Congress has now landed in court, with Sachin PIlot and 18 other MLAs challenging their disqualification by the Assembly Speaker. The Congress has suspended two rebel MLAs from primary membership of the party. Stay with TOI for live updates
Congress is doing all this to defame BJP, its clear the tussle is internal: Satish Poonia
Who gave the tape to Congress? What is its authencity?: Satish Poonia, Rajasthan BJP chief
Harish Salve and Mukul Rohatgi, representing the Pilot camp, completed their arguments today
There will be no action by the speaker till 5:30pm on Tuesday
Hearing on Sachin Pilot camp's plea against disqualification notices to continue on Monday, reports ANI
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat posts a cryptic tweet
यतो धर्मस्ततो जयः
— Gajendra Singh Shekhawat (@gssjodhpur) 1594981951000We reject baseless allegations by Congress that BJP is trying to topple Rajasthan govt: Sambit Patra
"BJP rejects all the baseless allegations being levelled against the BJP leaders by Congress in Rajasthan. Actually, Congress is frustrated as it couldn't put its house in order," said Patra. "They want to blame BJP for their failures by using a manufactured audio clip," he added. BJP spokesperson's remark comes hours after Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala accused Union Cabinet minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Congress legislator Bhanwarlal Sharma of conspiring to topple the elected government in Rajasthan and subvert the voters' mandate.
Court breaks for lunch, hearing to continue
Senior lawyer NK Maloo opened the arguments for Cong chief whip Mahesh Joshi, Pilot camp lawyer Harish Salve argued next
Rajasthan Speaker expected to take up at 5pm Congress complaint seeking disqualification of Sachin Pilot, 18 other MLAs from assembly
'Acts outside the House are not violation of anti-defection law,' Congress dissident MLAs' advocate Harish Salve argues in Rajasthan HC
2 FIRs lodged on complaints of horse trading
The Rajasthan Police registered two FIRs on Friday on a complaint lodged by the Congress over the alleged conspiracy to topple the Ashok Gehlot government through horse trading of MLAs. ADG (ATS and SOG), Ashok Rathore, "Two FIRs have been registered under IPC sections 124-A (sedition) and 120-B (Conspiracy) to probe into horse trading of MLAs and alleged audio recordings that went viral on social media." He said Sanjay Jain, whose name surfaced in one of the audio recordings, was called for interrogation on Thursday and is being further questioned.
Rajasthan HC allows Congress chief whip Mahesh Joshi's plea to be added as a respondent in the case
Rajasthan Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice Prakash Gupta hearing petition filed by Sachin Pilot, 18 other Congress MLAs
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BJP rejects all the baseless allegations being levelled against the BJP leaders by Congress in Rajasthan. Actually, Congress is frustrated as it couldn't put its house in order. They want to blame BJP for their failures by using a manufactured audio clip
Sambit Patra, BJPSanjay Jain, an alleged 'middleman' is being questioned; his voice was apparently heard on the tapes that have surfaced
Rajasthan SOG team will shortly leave for Manesar to seek permission from court for taking voice samples of those named in the FIR
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There were two complaints from Mahesh Joshi (Congress leader), it is with respect to the audio that went viral yesterday. We registered 2 FIRs under section 124A and 120B. The veracity of clip to be investigated. Sanjay Jain was interrogated yesterday, he was called today also. Presently we are trying to ascertain some facts from him
Ashoke Rathore, ADG Special Operations Group (SOG), Rajasthan