New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday orally observed that disqualified Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Irfan Solanki should allow his wife, Naseem Solanki, to remain MLA after she won the By-elections in November last year from UP's Sishamau.

The top court's remark came in response to a plea filed by Irfan Solanki, which sought to stay his conviction in an arson case that resulted in his disqualification as an MLA.

A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Ujjal Bhuyan and N. Kotiswar Singh opined that when the convicted SP leaders' wife, Naseem Solanki, has been elected as the MLA and that the elections would not be held for the next two years, for the said candidacy, then why should the wife not be allowed to continue.

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