Sanjay Singh, the Aam Aadmi Party’s leader, will not take oath as a Rajya Sabha MP on Monday. According to ANI, the Rajya Sabha chairman has refused to allow Singh to take oath, citing the subject being handled by the Privileges Committee at present.
Sanjay Singh was suspended from the Rajya Sabha on July 24 of last year for failing to obey the chair’s directions.
On Saturday, Delhi’s Rouse Avenue court permitted the 51-year-old detained AAP leader to take his oath as an MP while in policy custody. The court judgment was given two days after Singh filed a motion in court requesting temporary release for oath and attendance at Parliament’s current Budget session from February 5 to 9.
Singh’s lawyer had submitted in court that the plea for interim bail is not pressed as the AAP leader had to go to Sultanpur for a hearing in another case filed against him on February 7.
As the ED did not oppose his modified plea, the court dismissed the politician’s interim bail application and allowed him to take oath on Monday.
Sanjay Singh has been in jail since October in connection with the ED’s money laundering probe into the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy. He had been granted permission on January 4 to file his nomination for Rajya Sabha membership and on January 10 to go to the returning officer to receive his membership certificate.
The central agency is probing the alleged money laundering in the matter. The case pertains to the Arvind Kejriwal government’s 2021-22 excise policy to revitalise the national capital’s flagging liquor business.
The Delhi excise policy case pertains to allegations that the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government’s excise policy for 2021-22 allowed cartelisation and favoured certain dealers who had allegedly paid bribes for it, a charge that has been strongly refuted by the AAP.
Sanjay Singh’s party colleague and former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia has been in jail since March last year in the same case.
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Source: HT
