Rajasthan Speaker has issued notices to Sachin Pilot and 18 other rebel Congress MLAs after the party sought their disqualification from the state assembly.

Sacked deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot and the other MLAs were asked to respond to the notices by Friday. The notices were issued on Tuesday. The MLAs had defied a whip and did not attend its legislature party meetings held on Monday and Tuesday. "Notices have been issued to 19 rebel MLAs, including Pilot, yesterday," Speaker C P Joshi told PTI to Wednesday.