Election Commission appoints 15 expenditure observers in Punjab
Chandigarh/New Delhi, The Punjab government has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment quashing the appointments of 21 Chief Parliamentary Secretaries.
Additional Advocate General Ajay Bansal confirmed that the state had filed the appeal. On August 12, a Division Bench of Justice SS Saron and Justice Ramendra Jain of the HC had delivered the verdict on two petitions by advocates Jagmohan Singh Bhatti and HC Arora. The ruling had caused a major embarrassment to Punjab’s SAD-BJP government.
In his petition filed more than four years ago, Bhatti had sought directions for declaring as illegal and unconstitutional the holding of Chief Parliamentary Secretaries’ posts by MLAs in Punjab.
Bhatti had pleaded that the appointment of Chief Parliamentary Secretaries and Parliamentary Secretaries in Himachal Pradesh had been quashed by the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
