Office of profit case: Kejriwal govt in trouble as EC rejects 21 MLAs' plea

The EC rejected their plea to drop the office-of-profit case

In a major setback for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Election Commission (EC) on Saturday rejected pleas of 21 AAP legislators to drop office of profit case against them. The MLAs are facing prospects of disqualification for allegedly holding office of profit.

The EC in its final hearing, likely to be in August, will decide on their disqualification, according to ANI. 

The EC had in March reserved its order on the plea of the AAP MLAs that it should drop the case of office of profit against them as their appointment as parliamentary secretaries has already been set aside