The Delhi High
Court on Tuesday asked seven BJP MLAs, suspended from the Delhi Assembly for
interrupting the lieutenant governor's address, if they were willing to
apologise to him.
Justice
Subramonium Prasad asked the senior counsel appearing for the suspended
legislators to take instructions on this aspect after the senior lawyer for the
assembly said a similar approach was adopted in the Supreme Court in the case
of MP Raghav Chadha.
Appearing for the
assembly, senior advocate Sudhir Nandrajog said the matter is not political and
it involves the dignity of the office of the LG.
"I spoke to
the speaker. He also suggested the route followed by the Supreme Court in
Raghav Chadha's case. If members were to come and meet the speaker and
apologise to the LG, the whole thing could be put through," he said.
Senior advocate
Jayant Mehta, appearing for the MLAs, said there was no difficulty in
apologising to the LG.
The court asked
the petitioners' counsel to come back in the post-lunch session with
instructions.
The seven BJP
MLAs -- Mohan Singh Bisht, Ajay Mahawar, O P Sharma, Abhay Verma, Anil Bajpai,
Jitender Mahajan and Vijender Gupta -- had approached the high court on Monday
challenging their indefinite suspension from the Assembly for interrupting the
Lieutenant Governor's address.
They said their
suspension till the conclusion of proceedings before the privileges committee
was in violation of the applicable rules and the MLAs were consequently unable
to attend the ongoing budget session.
The BJP MLAs had
interrupted Lt Governor (LG) VK Saxena multiple times during his address on
February 15 as he highlighted the achievements of the AAP government. They
sought to attack the Arvind Kejriwal government on a range of issues.