OoP: EC to close case against PM, FM

NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 1: The Election Commission seems all set to close about 40 pending petitions seeking disqualification of MPs, including those against against PM Manmohan Singh, Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. This comes in the wake of the amendment to the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act Office exempting many offices from the list of office of profit.

Sources said the matter was discussed at a sitting of the full Commission today though no official confirmation was forthcoming. They also said the Commission would by the next week be sending individual opinions on the complaints forwarded by the President.

The complaint against the PM and FM relates to their holding offices as trustees of the Rajiv Gandhi foundation.

Chatterjee, who is also chairperson of the Santiniketan-Sriniketan Development Board, and SP MP Amar Singh, who is chairman of UP Industrial Development Council, are among the 40 MPs against whom disqualification petitions are pending.

But the recent amendment to the Parliament Act, which has received Presidential assent, is expected to save them as these offices have been included in the exempted list. The amendments were to apply with retrospective effect. Soon after the amendments, the EC had said that it would go by the legislation to decide the petitions.

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