P A Sangma Tuesday petitioned the Supreme Court to scrap Pranab Mukherjees election as the President on the ground that he was holding offices of profit when he was voted into the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Sangma,a former ok Sabha Speaker who lost the Presidential polls,claimed Mukherjee held two offices of profit chairman of the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata and leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha when he entered the Presidential race. Sangma argued that the post of the leader of Congress in Lok Sabha is an office of profit as the occupant enjoys various facilities in addition to those available as an MP. That the very act of bringing the said two offices chairman of ISI council and leader of Congress in Lok Sabha under the purview of the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act,1959 is in itself sufficient declaration that both these are offices of profit, Sangma said in his petition.
