‘How Can We Reinstate You When You Resigned’: Supreme Court Tells Uddhav Thackeray Faction In Shiv Sena Case

New Delhi: The Supreme Court acknowledged, on Thursday (March 17), that it can not reinstate Uddhav Thackeray as Chief Minister of Maharashtra when Thackeray put in his resignation earlier than a flooring check might occur. During a listening to on the Shiv Sena matter, the five-judge structure bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud advised the Uddhav faction’s lawyer that asking the apex court docket to reinstate Uddhav Thackeray as CM is like asking to reinstate a authorities that has resigned earlier than the ground check.

The court docket quipped, “So, according to you, we do what? Reinstate you? But you resigned. That’s like the court being asked to reinstate a government which has resigned before the floor test.”

As per reviews, the Thackeray faction had prompt that the court docket might restore the “status quo ante” and reinstate Uddhav as CM because it did in 2016 when it reinstated Nabam Tuki because the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh. “How can the court reinstate the chief minister, who did not even face the floor test,” the court docket stated to the Thackeray faction.

Along with Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, the bench comprised Justice MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli, and PS Narasimha. The verdict on the Shiv Sena row involving the Eknath Shinde faction and Uddhav Thackeray faction was reserved by the court docket on Thursday.

Abhishek Singhvi, a part of the Uddhav faction’s authorized group, advised the court docket, “My resignation is irrelevant. Your lordships are not reinstating anyone but restoring the status quo ante.”

“The resignation of the ex-CM on June 29, 2022, would be irrelevant as once the illegal act of the governor is allowed to be implemented, the result of the trust vote was a known and foregone conclusion, and factually there was no need for the ex-CM to subject himself to it,” he additional stated. 

In February, the Election Commission allotted the identify ‘Shiv Sena’ and its ballot image to the group led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as a substitute of the Uddhav Thackeray faction. Uddhav Thackeray, disillusioned with the choice, had stated, “We will surely go to the Supreme Court against this EC order. We are sure that the SC will set aside this order and that the 16 MLAs will be disqualified by SC.”