While Rajasthan CM has told high command's emissaries he had no role in MLAs skipping Sunday CLP meet, no one in party is buying it, according to multiple leaders in Delhi & Jaipur.
After 12 of its 17 Congress MLAs joined Trinamool Congress last November, the party got another shock when 5 remaining legislators pledged support to state's BJP-backed govt.
Apart from tendering an apology in the Assembly, Karnataka MLA Ramesh Kumar also tweeted saying his intention wasn't to 'trivialise the heinous crime but was an off-the-cuff remark'.
The MLAs in a letter also stated that Navjot Singh Sidhu may be a 'celebrity', but criticising his own party and government in public has only created a rift in the cadres.
Police booked the protestors under section 88 of the IPC for violating the district administration order banning assembly of people due to coronavirus.
The MLAs have been staying in a hotel on the Delhi-Jaipur Highway since the start of the Rajasthan political crisis on 13 July, so as to prevent them from defecting.
The court issued the notices while hearing the writ petitions filed by the BSP and BJP MLA Madan Dilawar against the six lawmakers defecting to Congress.
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