Bhopal, April 3 -- The Madhya Pradesh State Assembly Secretariat on Friday issued an order terminating the membership of opposition Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti from the Datia Assembly constituency following his conviction in a bank fraud case.
Bharti was on April 1 convicted by an MP/MLA court of New Delhi in a 27-year-old case of bank fraud, and sentenced on April 2 to three years imprisonment and Rs one lakh fine.
Following the court's decision, MP Assembly Speaker Narendra Singh Tomar directed the Assembly officials to issue the order terminating Bharti's membership.
Assembly Principal Secretary Arvind Sharma issued the order, citing the Supreme Court's directive that any public representative sentenced to jail for two years or more ...