The Speaker is virtually forcing us to continue in the House against our wishes,” Rohatgi said on their behalf. He said the MLAs want to resign and go back the people.“Now a whip has been issued asking us to vote in a particular manner,” he said. We want to go back to the people, seek re-election, whatever. It has been reduced to a minority.”Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for the Speaker, said the Speaker’s acceptance of the resignations would mean an end to the disqualification pending against them. “They cannot escape disqualification by resigning.” Singhvi urged the court to allow the Speaker to take a call on both resignations and disqualification as soon as possible.

Source: Economic Times July 17, 2019 02:37 UTC