Contradiction in terms: Letter to BS on disqualification of AAP legislators

The said ruling went unchallenged and as such has attained finality

The disqualification of 20 Aam Aadmi Party legislators on the ground of their holding “an office of profit” as parliamentary secretaries should be fiercely debated both politically and legally. One of the basic questions that arises is, when their very appointment as such secretary had been quashed by the Delhi High Court in 2016 on the ground that these were made without the approval of the Lieutenant Governor, can these legislators then still be deemed “parliamentary secretaries” at all? 

 

It is pertinent to point out what the High Court in effect had held was that the Delhi