The Thackeray factions plea was to be listed for hearing Today (March 1) before a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud. The Supreme Court announced today that it will schedule for March 7 the petition filed by the Uddhav Thackeray faction contesting the ruling of Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar, who declared the Shiv Sena bloc led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the authentic political party.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court announced Today that it would schedule the plea of the Uddhav Thackeray faction challenging Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar’s order, which declared the Shiv Sena bloc led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the “real political party” following the outfit’s split in June 2022, for March 7.
“The Thackeray faction’s plea was to be listed for hearing on March 1 before a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud,”
-reported the source.
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing the Thackeray faction, brought up the plea, stating that it was absent from the list of business and requested the bench, also comprising Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra, to include it on March 7.
“We will list it for hearing on March 7 (Thursday),”
–confirmed the Chief Justice of India,
mentioning that several matters scheduled for March 1 could not be accommodated due to the bench’s early rise.
The Supreme Court had previously assured early listing of the plea on February 5 and 12, after Sibal raised the matter.
Earlier on January 22, the Supreme Court had issued notices to Chief Minister Shinde and other lawmakers of his group in response to the Thackeray bloc’s plea contesting the speaker’s order. The court had then ordered its listing after two weeks.
The Thackeray faction alleges that Shinde has “unconstitutionally usurped power” and is heading an “unconstitutional government” in Maharashtra.
In an order issued on January 10, Speaker Narwekar dismissed the Thackeray faction’s plea to disqualify 16 MLAs of the ruling camp, including Shinde.
The Thackeray faction has criticized the speaker’s order as “patently unlawful and perverse”, arguing that instead of penalizing the act of defection, it rewards the defectors by asserting that they constitute the real political party.
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