Court Upholds Goa Speaker's Order Dismissing Plea To Disqualify 12 MLAs
NDTV
The Goa Assembly Speaker had last year dismissed the pleas seeking disqualification of 12 MLAs who had switched over to BJP from their parties in 2019.
The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the Goa Assembly Speaker's order dismissing two petitions seeking disqualification of 12 MLAs who switched over from their parties to the ruling BJP in 2019.
Ten of these MLAs had quit the Congress, which said the judgement was unexpected and claimed this will encourage the BJP-led central government's "politics to change the mandate of people" with the use of money.
On the other side, the BJP welcomed the order, saying "democracy and constitutional mandate prevailed over smear campaign".
Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Girish Chodankar had filed a disqualification petition in the court against 10 party MLAs who switched over to the BJP in July 2019.
