The Supreme Court has held that all Punjab municipal wards where the court-appointed Fact-Finding Commission headed by former High Court judge Justice Nirmaljit Kaur found violence must go for re-election, after the State of Punjab accepted the Commission’s report.
Kapil Sibal argued in Kochi that the whip does not bind legislators in the United States, the United Kingdom or Europe as it does in India. The comparison needs qualifying, but the underlying point holds: India is unusual in attaching loss of the seat to a party direction, and every reform committee since 1990 has recommended narrowing it.
An independent MLA in Haryana switching sides three times gave Indian politics a phrase in 1967. Nearly sixty years, two failed Bills, one constitutional amendment and one repeal later, the same question is back before the Supreme Court. A look at how the Tenth Schedule was built and why each reform produced the next workaround.
Speaking at a talk in Kochi, Senior Advocate and Independent Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal questioned why the Supreme Court has not decided the correctness of the merger exception under Paragraph 4 of the Tenth Schedule since 2022, and argued that treating a legislature party merger as sufficient defeats the anti-defection law. The issue is pending before the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court disposed of the TMC’s plea over the removal of its Camac Street office signboard, granting both sides liberty to argue before the Calcutta High Court and asking it to decide expeditiously. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday disposed of a plea by the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) concerning the removal […]
Hearing the Shiv Sena disqualification case, the Supreme Court asked whether it could itself declare Shinde-faction MLAs disqualified or only set aside the Speaker’s order and remand it. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday, hearing the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena’s challenge to the Maharashtra Speaker’s refusal to disqualify Eknath Shinde faction MLAs, asked whether […]
Arguing the Shiv Sena disqualification case, Kapil Sibal told the Supreme Court the Maharashtra Speaker “distorted” the Tenth Schedule by treating the legislative party as the political party. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday resumed hearing the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena’s challenge to the Maharashtra Speaker’s refusal to disqualify MLAs of the Eknath Shinde […]
Hearing Uddhav Thackeray’s challenge to the ECI recognising the Shinde faction as the Shiv Sena, CJI Surya Kant said the rule letting the ECI decide symbol disputes first “may need a relook.” New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard extensive arguments in Uddhav Thackeray’s challenge to the Election Commission of India’s decision recognising the […]