The Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of India condemned the Election Commission's recent recommendation to disqualify 20 Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs for holding an office of profit.
In a statement today, CPI general secretary S Sudhakar Reddy condemned the "unilateral" move of the EC, and deplored the Commission "not bothering to hear out the AAP leaders on the issue".
He also found fault with the EC for not disqualifying MLAs from other parties who had held parliamentary secretary positions in various other states of the country.
He said that the decision to disqualify the AAP MLAs was rushed as it was taken on the day of retirement of the Chief Election Commissioner, who, earlier, too, was seen as supportive of the BJP government at the Centre.
The CPI stated that the Commission, and the Chief Election Commissioner A K Jyoti in particular, had acted in a manner which brought one to the conclusion that the recommendation was a political one taken wholly to please the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.