Could Article 190 Lead To Jagan’s Disqualification?

YSR Congress chief and Pulivendula MLA YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has taken the odd decision of completely avoiding the assembly sessions. He vows not to enter the assembly and instead hold press meetings to question the government. As strange as this may sound, this is a clear instruction from Jagan to his bunch of 11 YCP MLAs.

Coming to the topic, there is an increased commotion and social media talk about whether and if Jagan’s assembly seat can be nullified if he really doesn’t intend to set foot in the assembly.

A leading advocate and law teacher shared an interesting social media post on this as he wrote “Article 190 in Constitution of India. (4) If for a period of sixty days a member of a House of the Legislature of a State is without permission of the House absent from all meetings thereof, the House may declare his seat vacant.”

This essentially means that Jagan’s MLA seat can be nullified by the assembly if he decides to forgo the sessions for an elaborate period of time.

However, this is a farfetched option for the time being, considering that it is an infamous practice in the AP assembly for opposition leaders to walkout for elaborate periods. Jagan had done the same before 2019 as he quit Assembly to star Padayatra, and later Chandrababu was made to quit the assembly after YCP MLAs spoke ill of his family inside the house.