New Delhi: This comes as a major relief to the Aam Aadmi Party as the Election Commission has cleared the 27 legislators in an Office of Profit petition pending against them for almost two years.

In June 2016, a law student Vibhor Anand had written to the EC, alleging that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had named 27 MLAs as the chair of Delhi’s Rogi Kalyan Samiti to monitor various state-run hospitals. He had also argued that it was fine for MLAs to be members of the Rogi Kalyan Samiti but not appropriate for them to chair it and hence had asked the EC to dismiss them as they were holding office in contravention of the Representation of People’s Act.

The Rogi Kalyan Samitis function as NGOs, which look after the state-run hospitals with the local Member of Parliament, the MLA and administrative officials as members of these committees.