Jaipur:A day after the Rajasthan High Court dismissed BJP MLA Madanlal Dilawar's plea over merger of Rajasthan BSP with the Congress, he filed a second petition in the High Court on Tuesday.
Dilawar has challenged the Rajasthan Assembly Speaker's decision taken on July 24 to dismiss his plea demanding disqualification of BSP MLAs under anti-defection law.
Dilawar, in his first petition, alleged that despite his complaint being submitted to the Speaker C.P. Joshi in March regarding the BSP MLAs' defection, no action was taken by him in the last many months.
Six BSP MLAs had merged with the Congress in September 2019 and also supported it during the recent Rajya Sabha polls.
Dilawar, in March this year, submitted a complaint to the Speaker in this context which was unattended till July 24.
Around noon on Monday, Dilawar staged a sit-in at the office of the assembly secretary, P.K. Mathur. "The secretary told me that my petition had been dismissed. He told me that a detailed order will be provided on email. I am waiting for that," Dilawar later said.
Meanwhile, the single bench of Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal on Monday dismissed Dilawar's petition calling it infructuous after Additional Attorney General R.P. Singh informed the court that the Speaker has already decided on the complaint on July 24. Senior lawyer Harish Salve represented Dilawar's case.