Antony Raju disqualified as MLA

The Kerala Legislative Secretariat connected Monday disqualified Left Democratic Front (LDF) legislator and erstwhile Transport Minister Antony Raju arsenic an MLA pursuing the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court bid past week which recovered the Thiruvananthapuram MLA blameworthy of forging and planting worldly grounds successful a decades-old grounds tampering lawsuit pursuing a cause seizure lawsuit booked successful 1990.

As per the Kerala Legislature Secretariat’s notification issued connected Monday evening, the disqualification is arsenic per the provisions of the Representation of Peoples Act, 1951 and the applicable Supreme Court decisions. With his disqualification, the Thiruvananthapuram Assembly constituency volition not person an MLA, but byelection volition not beryllium held arsenic the Assembly elections are acceptable to instrumentality spot successful a fewer months. Mr. Raju is presently a person of the Janadhipathya Kerala Congress, a ruling LDF ally.