Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court issued a notice to the Attorney General of India over a petition seeking disqualification of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya from their positions in the state government.
The next date for hearing has been set as May 24 by the Lucknow bench of the High Court. A division bench comprising justices Sudhir Agrawal and Virendra Kumar passed the order on the Public Interest Litigation filed by Sanjai Sharma, reported PTI.
The petitioner also sought that their Lok Sabha seats be declared vacant. Sharma challenged the constitutionality of section 3(A) of the Prevention of Disqualification Act.
Since the constitutionality of a central act cannot be tested without hearing the Attorney General, the court issued him notice. Adityanath and Maurya were sworn-in on March 19. Both of them are likely to resign from their parliamentary seats only after casting their vote in the presidential election this July.
As per norms, they have to be elected to the legislature in their states within six months since they were sworn in. They can contest elections to the state legislature only after quitting as MPs.
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