Overview
- The Disciplinary Action Committee, which met Friday under chair Dharampal Malik, said it will finalise its report and submit it to the Congress high command.
- The inquiry targets five MLAs — Shalli Chaudhary, Renu Bala, Mohammad Illyas, Mohammad Israil and Jarnail Singh — over alleged votes linked to BJP-backed Independent Satish Nandal.
- The party issued show-cause notices for anti-party activity, and Malik said only Chaudhary, Bala and Jarnail Singh replied and denied wrongdoing.
- Malik said the two who did not respond — Illyas and Israil — are being treated as having accepted the allegations.
- The case stems from the March 16 Rajya Sabha election, where four Congress votes were ruled invalid as BJP’s Sanjay Bhatia won one seat and Congress’s Karamvir Singh Boudh edged Nandal for the other, highlighting how each MLA’s vote can decide an upper-house seat.