UP assembly speaker to hear 5 MLAs disqualfication case on May 11

Lucknow, May 8 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh assembly speaker Mata Prasad Pandey today fixed May 11 as the next date of hearing into the case pertaining to disqualification of 5 MLAs, who violated the whip in the Rajya Sabha elections.

The hearing was postponed following absence of the speaker, who could not arrive in the state capital today from New Delhi.

Meanwhile, all the five MLAs -- Jaiveer Singh, Surendra Vikram Singh, Ramji Shukla, Ram Krishna and Dharampur -- had sent their preliminary objections on the petition of disqualification filed by Loktrantrik Bahujan Dal (LBD) chief whip Yogesh Pratap Singh on their disqualification from the assembly for violating the whip.

In the objections, the MLAs claimed there was no existance of LBD. They have also demanded party list during the RS polls and documents relating to the existance of the LBD and its chief whip.

Earlier on Friday, the Supreme court had turned down the plea of the MLAs to prevent the speaker from hearing their case.

The 5 MLAs had rejoined the BSP on March 1 after the Allahabad High Court by its majority judgement had quashed the split and merger of the 40 member LBD in September 2003.

These 40 MLAs leaving BSP had formed the LBD and later joined the ruling Samajwadi Party.

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