5 Parliamentarians Resign From Lok Sabha, resignations are accepted by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan!
NEW DELHI: Three Lok Sabha members, who were basically elected on the BJP’s ticket, and other two Congress parliamentarians have resigned from the lower house after being elected as legislators in state assemblies, according to a government notification. And the resignations of all the five parliamentarians have been accepted by Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan.
Two Congress leaders who resigned are — Tamradhwaj Sahu and Raghu Sharma — resigned after they were elected as lawmakers during the recently-held assembly polls in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan respectively.
Harish Chandra Meena, who won from Dausa parliamentary constituency in Rajasthan as Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate, later joined the Congress and elected as a lawmaker in the state assembly elections held earlier this month.