Supreme Court To Hear Sharad Pawar Camp's Plea For Action Against Rebel MLAs On Oct 13
NDTV
In July, Sharad Pawar-led group filed disqualification petitions against 40 MLAs for anti-party activities after Ajit Pawar split the party.
The Supreme Court on Monday posted for hearing on the October 13 plea of the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) seeking directions to Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar to take action against rebel MLAs led by Ajit Pawar. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said the present petition will be heard with a similar plea of Uddhav Thackeray group demanding speedy adjudication of the disqualification petitions against Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the MLAs who supported him last year.
The bench said, "Let this be heard with the other one already pending before us. They involve the same issue, and the prayers are also the same. We had asked the Speaker to lay down a time schedule. We will list this and the other matter together on Friday."
Senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing the Sharad Pawar group, complained that though the first disqualification was filed before the Assembly Speaker on July 2, not even notice has been issued in the matter to date.
