Mumbai: In all, 17 MLAs, 14 from Congress and 3 from JD(S) have been disqualified by speaker KR Ramesh Kumar. Many of them have said they have been let down by their parties and the BJP, which had assured them of plum posts in the new government. Kumar barred them from contesting elections till 2023.
“The speaker has played to a script,” said N Munirathna, Congress MLA. “Otherwise, how can he say disqualified MLAs are barred from contesting the next elections when he knows it is incorrect? The first round of disqualifications was to threaten us. The rest of us were disqualified because we didn’t relent.”
“The disqualification order is against the law,” said JD(S) rebel AH Vishwanath. “We will approach the Supreme Court on Monday against the speaker’s decision,” he added.
“BJP leaders had promised to make some of us ministers the day the party came to power,” said a disqualified legislator. “Now we feel let down.”
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