Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari is acting at the behest of opposition leader and Bharatiya Janata Party’s Devendra Fadnavis, with Shiv Sena chief whip Sunil Prabhu challenging Koshyari’s directive to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the Supreme Court. Said in his petition in the court. The government will take a floor test in the assembly on Thursday at 11 am.
A vacation bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala took note of the submissions of senior advocate AM Singhvi that the decision taken by the Governor required urgent hearing. SC hearing has started.
“The governor is involving himself in the infighting of Shiv Sena. After meeting Fadnavis late at night, he is acting in unnecessarily haste [Tuesday], They have also not sought CM’s views on the letter of the opposition leader that the MVA government has lost majority,” the petition said.
Terming the Governor’s actions as “malicious, unconstitutional and illegal”, he asked for the order floor test This was in defiance of the fact that “SC is forfeited in case of disqualification”.
On June 27, Thackeray had moved the Supreme Court seeking the disqualification of 16 rebel MLAs of the Eknath Shinde-led group.
The SC had adjourned the disqualification proceedings against the rebel MLAs till July 11 before the Deputy Speaker of the state assembly, and also sought replies from the state government and others on their petitions questioning the validity of the notices seeking their disqualification. Had asked
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Prabhu said the governor’s orders were “a desperate attempt to allow safe passage to members facing disqualification” and “entirely based on media reports”, as none of the 39 rebel MLAs had appeared earlier. , or they were not written.
The petition states that Governor’s action This is a clear attempt to save the MLAs from the punishment of defection.
Meanwhile, Shinde on Wednesday claimed the support of 50 dissident MLAs and independents from his own party, saying they can clear any floor test no.
Visiting the Kamakhya temple in Assam for the second time in the day, Shinde said, “We have 50 MLAs, more than two-thirds. We are not worried about the floor test and we will pass the exam.”
Thackeray has called a cabinet meeting at 5 pm.
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