Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Assembly Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey on Thursday fixed June 5 for final hearing into the case pertaining to disqualification of five MLAs, who had rejoined the BSP leaving the Loktrantrik Bahujan Dal (LBD) on March 1 last.

The Speaker, however, rejected an application of the counsel of an MLA urging fixation of the case after June 15.

Mr Pandey said June 5 had been fixed to complete the arguments in the case even as the MLAs' counsel said that they were yet to get relevant documents. Counsel for MLA Ramkrishna, Raghevendra Pratap Singh said they had received only the party list dated April 4, 2006 whereas the Allahabad High Court directive on May 29 last had asked the speaker to give all `relevant documents'.

The Speaker said after the High Court judgement of February 28, 2006, the party list was released on April 4.

Petitioner and State Minister Yogesh Pratap Singh claimed the five MLAs were deliberately delaying the hearing by moving applications demanding more time and other documents.

The five MLAs were also demanding the current party position list in the Assembly and party-wise electoral rolls used during the biennial Rajya Sabha polls on March 28. Mr Pandey had said under the 10th Schedule related to disqualification, there was no need for such lists.

Earlier, the counsels of the five MLAs had demanded the list claiming it would decide whether the MLAs had left the party or not.

All the five MLAs -- Jaiveer Singh, Surendra Vikram Singh, Ramji Shukla, Ram Krishna and Dharampur -- had already submitted their preliminary objections on the petition of disqualification filed by chief whip Yogesh Pratap Singh on their disqualification from the Assembly for violating the whip. -- UNI

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