Assembly Speaker Charles Pyngrope has ruled out the disqualification of HSPDP member Dr Adviser Pariong, who is contesting the upcoming election on a Congress ticket, saying that he had already resigned from the House.
“Pariong resigned from the Assembly on January 4 and it was only on January 15 that the HSPDP president HS Lyngdoh lodged a complaint,” Pyngrope said on Thursday.
The Speaker will soon give his ruling on the 11 NCP defectors who had joined the newly formed NPP.
“I have sent a letter to the Additional Secretary of the Assembly seeking constitutional views and after getting the same I will give the ruling,” Pyngrope added.
It was on August 24 last at a function held in Shillong that the NCP functionaries and legislators declared their ‘merger’ with the NPP.
Later, NCP legislator and Deputy Speaker Sanbor Shullai lodged a complaint with the Speaker asking him to disqualify the 11 defectors.
However, in their reply, the defectors said that technically they were still NCP legislators.
