Rajya Sabha secretariat verifies 45 of 54 signatures on notice to bring motion for Justice Shekhar Yadav ouster | India News
NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha secretariat has verified signatures of 45 of the 54 MPs on a notice for a motion to remove Justice Shekhar Yadav of Allahabad high court over his “hate speech”, while nine MPs are yet to do so. Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram’s signature verification was received by RS Secretariat on Tuesday, sources said.A motion for removal of a judge can be moved in Rajya Sabha only after 50 MPs sign the same. For Lok Sabha, signatures of 100 MPs are needed. The Constitution states that a judge can be removed after both Houses of Parliament approve the motion with two-thirds majority of the members present.According to RS sources, the nine MPs whose signatures have not been verified yet and who are yet to respond to email queries are Kapil Sibal (Ind), Sushmita Dev (TMC), Jose K Mani and GC Chandrashekhar (Cong), Faiyaz Ahmad (RJD), Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya (CPM), Raghav Chadha and Sanjeev Arora (AAP), and NR Elango (DMK). Sibal has denied receiving any email from RS Secretariat. tnn
