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New Delhi: Uddhav Thackeray in the state And the Shinde group is facing each other and the power struggle will continue as the Supreme Court is unable to come up with a decision today. When the hearing started in the Supreme Court, Shinde group’s lawyer Harish Salve once again raised the issue of the 10th list. Harish Salve argued that the Defection Act cannot be an anti-dissent law. On the other hand, Uddhav Thackeray group’s lawyer Kapil Sibal opined that there is no need to hand over the matter to a larger constitution bench. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has asked the Election Commission not to take any decision till the next hearing saying that it cannot interfere with the powers of the Election Commission. Further hearing in this matter will be held on Monday.
In the hearing held on Wednesday, Chief Justice N. V. Ramana criticized the controversy of disqualification of MLAs from the Shinde group by raising the question, “Why is there an insistence that this decision should be taken by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly?” The Shinde group first approached the court on the issue of disqualification, but now the court questioned the change in their stand. So everyone was paying attention to what will happen in the hearing today.
Disqualification of MLAs from Shinde group, no-confidence motion against Assembly Vice President, Leader of Legislative Assembly replaced by Shinde group and Shiv Sena, Chief Pratod etc. The hearing is going on before the court. The Supreme Court had ordered both groups to submit affidavits in this regard. Chief Minister Shinde has taken the stand in the Supreme Court that the Shinde group claims that they have not left the Shiv Sena and a group of 15 MLAs cannot disqualify 40 MLAs.
According to the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, the Supreme Court is hearing six petitions filed by the Shiv Sena demanding that the MLAs of the Shinde group should be disqualified for not merging with other parties. The Supreme Court had ordered both groups to submit affidavits in this regard. Chief Minister Shinde has taken the stand in the Supreme Court that the Shinde group claims that they have not left the Shiv Sena and a group of 15 MLAs cannot disqualify 40 MLAs. The Shiv Sena is demanding that Shinde MLAs should be disqualified for not merging with other parties as per the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.
