Office of profit row: Cong dares AAP MLAs to resign

Congress today dared AAP MLAs in Delhi, who have been asked to reply to an Election Commission notice on an office of profit issue, to resign from their posts as its party chief Sonia Gandhi had done in a similar situation.
"Either they should have the guts of the Congress president to resign from their seats or respond to the (EC) notice," party spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters here.
Singhvi, a senior Supreme Court lawyer, insisted that "significant" issues are involved in the matter and it needs deep deliberation.
Twenty-one AAP legislators, who were appointed parliamentary secretaries to Delhi ministers last year, have been sent notices by EC seeking to know why they should not be disqualified for holding two offices of profit.

The move by Delhi government to appoint 21 parliamentary secretaries was contested by an advocate who had pointed out that these legislators would thereby be holding two offices of profit.
In other remarks, Singhvi welcomed Lok Janshakti Party leader Chirag Paswan's suggestion that prosperous Dalits and well-off persons belonging to other sections of society should voluntarily stop availing quotas.
"It is a very good thing if people who are entitled to benefits give these up so as to benefit the more deserving or more deprived persons," he said.