SC allows floor testing requested by Maharashtra Governor on 30 June

The Uddhav Thackeray faction failed to get relief from the Supreme Court on Wednesday, as the court refused to postpone the floor test that Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari demanded on June 30 to test the Maha Vika Aghadi government’s demand for a majority in the House. .

“We are not holding the floor test,” a Vacation Bench of Justice Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala briefly informed the warring Shiv Sena factions after taking a half-hour break to consider in their chambers after a four-hour marathon hearing. starts at 17.00

However, the court said it would hear the subpoena filed by Thackeray loyalist Sunil Prabhu, which challenged the process leading to the call for floor tests on July 11, along with petitions filed by Sena dissidents led by Eknath Shinde, who has questioned incapacity proceedings brought against them.

“Tomorrow’s procedure (floor test) will be subject to the final outcome of these petitions in court,” the bench addressed the lawyers.

The court had as soon as possible heard the challenge to the floor test in the midst of the madness of political uprisings in Maharashtra. “The urgency that has been created requires that we hear the case today ourselves,” Judge Kant said.

The decision to allow the floor test came after the governor and the dissident MLAs believed that a delay in the vote of confidence would be “the antithesis of democracy” and “allow more time for horse trading in Maharashtra”.

The Thackeray camp argued that the no-confidence vote could not be held as the disqualification case against 16 rebel MLAs, including Shinde, was pending and investigated by the Supreme Court. They said the dissidents were an “artificial majority”.

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June 29, 2022