{"id":2837,"date":"2018-06-15T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T06:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2018-06-15T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T06:00:22","slug":"delhi-high-court-rejects-aap-mps-plea-against-modi-absenteeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/delhi-high-court-rejects-aap-mps-plea-against-modi-absenteeism\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court rejects AAP MP\u2019s plea against Modi \u2018absenteeism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0indianexpress.com<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected\u00a0Aam Aadmi Party\u00a0Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh\u2019s plea against Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u2019s \u201cabsenteeism\u201d from Parliament, saying the judiciary did not act as the headmaster of the legislature or legislators under the country\u2019s democratic framework.<\/p>\n<p>A vacation bench of Justices Sangita Dhingra Sehgal and C Hari Shankar also observed Singh\u2019s plea was \u201cwithout any merit\u201d and \u201cit is wholly lacking in bonafides, and is in the nature of a directed invective against the Prime Minister, for reasons recondite, and best known to petitioner (AAP MP)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe present petition is nothing but an abuse of the process of law and is ex facie, politically motivated\u2026 an attempt, such as this, would deserve to be dismissed with heavy costs. as the petitioner claims to be a social worker\u2026 we refrain from imposing any cost..,\u201d the bench noted.<\/p>\n<p>The observation came on the AAP MP\u2019s plea, filed just a day after rebel AAP MLA Kapil Mishra filed a similar petition against Delhi CM\u00a0Arvind Kejriwal. In his PIL, Singh requested the high court to direct the Prime Minister to regularly attend Parliament and reply to the questions raised by MPs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/delhi-high-court-rejects-aap-mps-plea-against-modi-absenteeism\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0indianexpress.com The Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected\u00a0Aam Aadmi Party\u00a0Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh\u2019s plea against Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u2019s \u201cabsenteeism\u201d from Parliament, saying the judiciary did not act as the headmaster of the legislature or legislators under the country\u2019s democratic framework. A vacation bench of Justices Sangita Dhingra Sehgal and C Hari Shankar also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2147,2148,211,1526,6,824,2149],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aap-mps","tag-absenteeism","tag-arvind-kejriwal","tag-delhi-cm","tag-delhi-high-court","tag-narendra-modi","tag-rime-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}