BJP MLA Vijender Gupta moves Delhi High Court against suspension from Delhi assembly

Former leader of opposition and senior BJP MLA Vijender Gupta has approached the Delhi High Court against the order of the Delhi legislative assembly speaker suspending him from the Delhi assembly for a period of one year..Senior Advocat Jayant Mehta mentioned the plea before a bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Sachin Datta today for urgent listing. The Court allowed the request and said that the case will come up tomorrow. .According to reports, Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel barred Gupta from taking part in the house proceeding till the next budget session. This was done after AAP MLA Sanjeev Jha proposed Gupta's suspension alleging that he frequently disrupted the House proceedings. Earlier in the day, Gupta had written a letter to the speaker proposing a breach of privilege motion against Finance Minister Kailash Gahlot and Environment Minister Gopal Rai stating that they leaked the budget details on social media before it was presented in the house. .In his plea, Gupta has argued that the speaker's order is unjust, unfair, unreasonable and passed in violation of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business, Legislative Assembly of National Capital Territory of Delhi. "The impugned action of the Hon'ble Speaker in permitting a ruling party MLA to move and proceed with the motion to seek suspension of the Petitioner from the House for a period of one year does not come within the definition of 'irregular proceedings' but in fact is a classic case of being categorized as "gross illegal" and "unconstitutional" but also contravention/violation of fundamental rights of the Petitioner under Articles 14 and 19 of the Constitution of India," the plea stated. Gupta further said that the behaviour of the AAP members was much unruly and disorderly. "The perusal of proceedings of the entire day i.e. 21.03.2023 clearly demonstrate that the actions of the Hon'ble Speaker of treating the MLAs of Ruling Party and the Petitioner who is member of opposition party in different manner were totally arbitrary; not being impartial and partisan in nature.".Gupta's plea has been filed through advocates Pawan Narang, Neeraj and Satya Ranjan Swain.