On Board President's Aircraft: President APJ Abdul Kalam has not yet taken a decision on the Election Commission recommendation for disqualification of Jaya Bachchan from the membership of Rajya Sabha. He says he is consulting legal experts on it.
"I got the report of the Election Commission and I am studying it," he told reporters on board his special aircraft on way to Yangoon, the first leg of his two-nation five-day visit to Myanmar and Mauritius.
He was replying to a question whether he has accepted the EC recommendation for disqualification of the Samajwadi Party (SP) MP.
On the basis of a petition filed by Madan Mohan - who alleged that she was holding an 'office of profit' as Chairperson of the Uttar Pradesh Film Development Council - the EC recommended that she be disqualified.
Under the Constitution, whenever a question of disqualification of an MP arises on grounds such as holding office of profit, the President decides on the question in consultation with the Election Commission, which may hold an enquiry into the matter as it deems fit.
He has received a petition from Bachchan, who has urged him to remit the matter back to the EC.
She has contended that the commission had not gone into the 'most fundamental document' relating to her appointment as chairperson of UPFDC, which was lying in a sealed cover in the High Court before taking its decision.
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