'Are you willing to apologise?" HC asks suspended BJP MLAS

The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked seven Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs, who were suspended from the Delhi assembly for interrupting lieutenant governor (LG) VK Saxena's address on the first day of the Budget Session, if they were willing to apologise to LG as it considered their plea for reinstatement to the House.

- Shruti Kakkar

The matter will now be heard on Wednesday as the MLAs sought an adjournment citing a new development.

The court issued the direction after taking note of speaker Ram Niwas Goel's proposal to end the suspension in case the MLAs agreed to meet him, and apologise to Saxena. "The issue here is the dignity of the officer. I had the occasion to speak to the Speaker. He has suggested the route followed by the Supreme Court in Raghav Chadha's case. If members were to come and meet the Speaker and apologise to LG, the whole thing could be settled," senior advocate Sudhir Nandrajog, appearing for the Delhi assembly and the Speaker, submitted before the bench of justice Subramonium Prasad.