AAP MLA Devender Sehrawat disqualification due to defection: SC to hear the plea tomorrow

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Devender Sehrawat

The Supreme Court will hear tomorrow the plea of Delhi MLA and former Aam Aadmi Party leader Devender Sehrawat challenging a disqualification circular issued to him by the Assembly Speaker under the anti-defection law for joining BJP.

Sehrawat had mentioned the plea yesterday before the bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and B R Gavai.

Besides Sehrawat, another AAP MLA Anil Bajpai has been issued disqualification notice under anti-defection law.

Sehrawat who represents Brijwasan as an MLA had defected to BJP on the grounds that he was suspended from the AAP after he objected to some party members conduct harassing women in Punjab.

—India Legal Bureau