The Supreme Court to hear a petition by the Shiv Sena-Uddhav faction challenging the Maharashtra Speaker’s refusal to disqualify MLAs of the Eknath Shinde group in the second week of April. The SC has additionally requested the respondents to file the reply on or earlier than April 1.
A bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra despatched for the unique paperwork after the Shinde faction alleged forgery in the data by the Thackeray camp. The prime courtroom, which had issued discover on the Thackeray group’s petition, requested Shinde and his MLAs to file a response positively on or earlier than April 1, and listed the plea for remaining listening to on April 8. The bench stated it was maintaining the problem of maintainability of the petition open.
On January 22, the highest courtroom had sought responses from the chief minister and different lawmakers of his group on the plea. The Thackeray faction, in its petition filed by way of MLA Sunil Prabhu, has alleged that Shinde “unconstitutionally usurped power” and is heading an “unconstitutional government”. The Shinde group had the help of 37 out of the full 54 Sena MLAs when the celebration cut up in June 2022, the speaker had famous. The Election Commission had given the ‘Shiv Sena’ identify and ‘bow and arrow’ image to the Shinde faction in early 2023.
