Sunday, 16 January 2022 | PNS | Dehradun
The speaker Premchand Agarwal has accepted the resignation of independent MLA Pritam Singh Panwar from the state assembly. Panwar had recently submitted his resignation from the Dhanaulti assembly constituency from where he was elected as an independent candidate in the assembly elections of 2017. On Saturday his resignation was accepted by the speaker.
It is worth mentioning here that Panwar had joined the BJP in September last year. He however had not tendered his resignation from the membership of the assembly. In the winter session of Uttarakhand assembly the opposition Congress members had raised the issue and had demanded that Panwar should be disqualified from the membership of the house under the provisions of anti defection law.
