Disqualification case: Top legal experts to argue before Speaker

Times of India
30 Nov 2002, LUCKNOW: Top legal experts would hold arguments before the UP Assembly speaker Keshari Nath Tripathi on Saturday over the maintainability issue of the BJP and BSP disqualification petitions seeking termination of ten BJP and one BSP MLAs.
While the BJP has hired the services of prominent lawyer and former party MP Satyapal Jain, BSP has hired former advocate-general Umesh Chandra, while rebels would be represented by IB Singh.
The Speaker Keshari Nath Tripathi had fixed November 30 as the date for hearing the arguments from both sides after rebels had submitted their replies on November 20 challenging the disqualification petition. ...

Jain supports traders' protest

Chandigarh Tribune
Former MP Satyapal Jain addresses the traders protesting against the rent Act in Chandigarh on Friday. (Image Courtesy The Tribune)

Chandigarh, November 29: The relay fast by traders continued today and it got a boost, with former MP Satya Pal Jain coming out in favour of the tenants.
He joined the protesters against the recent amendment to the East Punjab Urban Rent Restriction Act, 1949. Visiting the protesting traders in Sector 17, Mr Jain, who was accompanied by the president of the local unit of the BJP, Mr Yashpal Mahajan, pledged total support to the agitation by the BJP.
Mr Jain, who went to the spot where the traders were carrying out a relay fast, termed the amendment as anti-trader and added that it would ruin the economy. ...
... The president of the mandal, Mr Jagdish Arora, thanked Mr Jain for his support. A delegation of the Chandigarh Beopar Mandal would call on Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani to apprise him of how the rent act would affect the trading community.