Maharasthra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar said on Monday that the cases related to disqualification of MLAs will be heard on September 14.
40 MLAs of Shiv Sena Shinde group and 14 MLAs of Thackeray group will be heard.
The hearing will be held in the central hall of the state legislature, and all 54 MLAs will be heard on the same day. As many as 34 petitions will be heard before the Assembly Speaker at that time. In this hearing, plaintiff and defendant MLAs will be given an opportunity to present evidence and present their views. Each petition will be heard separately and the concerned MLAs will be called at that time.
The change of power in the state took place in July 2022. The vote of confidence on the state government and the election of the Speaker are in 2022. The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly will also look into the constitution of the political party and other matters while deciding on the disqualification petitions. The president also has to check whose side the office bearers of the party were on. Therefore, as per Shiv Sena constitution, who was the party chief in July 2022, under whose leadership the office bearers of the party were working and other details have been sought from the commission by the president. The Thackeray-Shinde group and each MLA will be given an opportunity to present their arguments in the hearing.
Eknath Shinde left Thackeray’s side and formed alliance with BJP but after that many court cases were started on both sides. Not only the name of the party, but also the symbol of the party, the battle for the eligibility of 16 MLAs started. The Supreme Court gave all these powers to the Assembly Speaker during the hearing, but Thackeray started a pressure mechanism to get Speaker Rahul Narvekar to give this decision as soon as possible. After filing a petition in the Supreme Court, a notice was sent to all the MLAs to submit their opinion within seven days.
