The report of the nine-member committee, tabled in the House today, called OP Sharma a "habitual offender". (File photo)
The Ethics Committee of the Delhi Assembly has "unanimously" recommended stripping off BJP legislator OP Sharma's membership of the House in connection with a case of making derogatory remarks against AAP legislator Alka Lamba five months back and being "unrepentant" about it.
The report of the nine-member committee, tabled in the House today, called Mr Sharma a "habitual offender". Sources said he may be given one last opportunity to tender an apology during the discussion on the report which is scheduled for tomorrow.
On his part, Mr Sharma trashed the recommendation of the committee describing it as "biased and politically motivated" and accused the ruling AAP of "misusing" its majority.
In November last year, Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel had suspended Mr Sharma for rest of the Winter Session for using derogatory language against Ms Lamba inside the House. Mr Goel had also referred the matter to the Ethics Committee for further probe.
Last month, Mr Sharma was caught on camera beating a CPI activist at Patiala House court complex when JNU student leader Kanhaiya Kumar was being produced. Days later he was arrested for the assault but was released on bail.
"From the proceedings of November 25, 2015 it is abundantly clear that Sharma used the words 'raat bhar ghumne wali' in the most derogatory and defamatory sense against Lamba. It amounted to character assassination.
"He has shown neither remorse nor sign of learning from his past mistakes and is a habitual offender. The committee is left with no choice but to recommend expulsion of Om Prakash Sharma from the membership of the sixth legislative Assembly of Delhi," the report said.
The section on facts and observations of the report, that was used to arrive at the conclusion by the members, said that Mr Sharma attended five of the 10 sittings of the committee where he remained "consistently defiant and unrepentant".
"Yet the committee tried to reason with him all through with the hope that he would realise his mistake and would express regrets. Unfortunately, he was not amenable to the very thought of being regretful," it said.
It accused the Vishwas Nagar legislator of making "sweeping and unsubstantiated charges" against the speaker, committee on ethics, chief minister and secretariat of legislature during the committee's last sitting.
The Ethics Committee, "unanimously" concluding that the BJP legislator is found guilty of conduct unbecoming of a legislator said that it is "left with no choice but to recommend expulsion of Om Prakash Sharma from the membership of the sixth legislative assembly of Delhi."
The report also referred to the fine imposed on him by the House after he was found guilty by the committee on ethics on an earlier occasion for damaging mike in the House during the Budget Session in June 2015.
"(He) has to his credit the record of being named by Speaker most number of times for indecorous conduct in the House. Has the history of repeatedly interrupting the proceedings of the House.
"(He) is imprudent enough to rush menacingly towards the leader of the House when he was addressing the House with the permission of the Chair. Has shown neither remorse nor sign of learning from his past mistakes and is a habitual offender," it added.
In December, the Delhi Assembly had passed a resolution on recovering Rs 18,560 from Mr Sharma's salary towards the cost incurred in replacing a mike he had damaged during the Budget Session and warned him not to repeat such action.