Sena Vs Sena: Supreme Court to consider listing of Uddhav Thackeray group's plea against Maharashtra CM Shinde, MLAs
The Hindu
Supreme Court to consider plea challenging Maharashtra Speaker's order on Shiv Sena split, CM Shinde's leadership.
The Supreme Court on July 10 agreed to consider listing of a plea of the Uddhav Thackeray faction challenging Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar's order declaring the Shiv Sena bloc led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the "real political party" after its split in June 2022.
The Speaker had also dismissed the disqualification petitions of the Uddhav Thackeray faction against CM Shinde and his supporting MLAs.
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A Bench comprising Chief Justice D. Y. Chandrachud and justices J. B. Pardiwala and Manoh Misra was urged by senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for UBT leader Sunil Prabhu, that the plea needed to be listed for hearing as even the term of the Assembly is nearing its end. "I will see," the CJI said and asked the senior lawyer to circulate an e-mail to this effect.
On January 22, the top court had issued notices to the Chief Minister and other lawmakers of his group on the plea of Mr. Prabhu, a leader of the Uddhav Thackeray faction.
The Thackeray faction has alleged that Shinde "unconstitutionally usurped power" and is heading an "unconstitutional government".
In his Order passed on January 10, Speaker Narwekar had also rejected the Thackeray faction's plea to disqualify 16 MLAs of the ruling camp, including Mr. Shinde.
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