Jain dares Ambika Soni

Chandigarh Tribune
Chandigarh, December 2: A former BJP MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, whom the Congress has accused of land grab in Dera Bassi, today dared Political Adviser to Sonia Gandhi, Ambika Soni, and local MP Pawan Bansal to get an inquiry done through the CBI, Vigilance Department, of the Congress government in Punjab or any other agency.
Mr Jain in a statement said he had nothing to do either with the sale or purchase of the DAV society land in Dera Bassi.
Mr Jain challenged the Congress leaders to have a public debate in front of an independent body like Press Club on the issue of two Congress MPs propriety in getting land for Heritage Society to set up Delhi Pubic School.
Terming allegations of land grab as "baseless", he said the Congress leaders were trying to sidetrack the issue of "impropriety" of party MPs.
Mr Jain said the land with which his name had being associated had been sold in 1995 at a time when Mr Bansal the MP.

UP speaker reserves order on BJP dissidents

Rediff.com
Uttar Pradesh assembly Speaker Kesri Nath Tripathi on Saturday reserved his order on the question of maintainability of a petition moved by the Bharatiya Janata Party against ten dissident legislators under the anti-defection law. ...
...Representing the party leadership was Sat Pal Jain, Chandigarh-based counsel and former BJP legislator, who was of the view that the act committed by the dissidents was enough to disqualify them from membership of the state assembly.
He cited the strikingly similar case of Ravi Naik in Goa who was disqualified for committing acts of indiscipline outside the assembly.
Jain's reference to the dissidents as "traitors" evoked a sharp response. Prolonged arguments that continued for over five hours eventually led the speaker to reserve his order.

BJP rebel plea put on hold

The Telegraph- Calcutta, India
Lucknow, Dec. 1: Uttar Pradesh Speaker Kesari Nath Tripathi has reserved his ruling on a BJP petition seeking disqualification of 10 rebel legislators on the ground that their conduct amounts to voluntarily quitting the party.
After hearing the arguments of counsels from both sides yesterday, Tripathi said he would give his ruling on the maintainability of the petition on a date to be announced later. ...
... Arguing for the BJP, counsel Satya Pal Jain admitted that there might have been some flaws in the petition but these were 'curable' and could not be considered 'fatal' for the petition itself.
He insisted that the conduct of the MLAs presented a perfect case for disqualification under the Anti-Defection Act.