The Rajasthan High
Court on Monday asked the state assembly speaker to decide on merit a writ
petition filed by BJP MLA Madan Dilawar against the merger of six BSP MLAs with
the ruling Congress, reported news agency PTI.

The court further asked the
speaker to decide on the matter in three months. A single-judge bench of
Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal, while disposing of the writ petition filed by
Dilawar, told him to approach the assembly speaker.

The court asked the
speaker to decide on the complaint, which was filed by Dilawar on March 16,
afresh.

“The court disposed
Madan Dilawar’s writ petition and has asked the assembly speaker to conduct
hearing in the complaint filed on March 16 and decide the matter on merit
within three months,” a counsel for the speaker said.

Detailed order of the
court is awaited.

Dilawar had filed the
writ petition in the high court to challenge the merger of six
MLAs- Sandeep Yadav, Wajib Ali, Deepchand Kheria, Lakhan Meena, Jogendra
Awana and Rajendra Gudha- with the Congress and demanded stay on the
execution on the order passed by the speaker.

The six MLAs had
contested and won the 2018 assembly elections on BSP tickets and defected to
the Congress in September 2019.

The MLAs submitted an
application for merger on September 16, 2019, and the Speaker issued an order on
September 18, 2019.

Challenging the
merger, Dilawar had filed a petition before the speaker in March, which was rejected on July 24.