NCP feud: SC to hear Sharad Pawar’s plea on rebel MLAs Oct 13
The Sharad Pawar group had filed petitions before the Speaker Narwekar seeking disqualification of 40 MLAs for anti-party.
The Sharad Pawar group had filed petitions before the Speaker Narwekar seeking disqualification of 40 MLAs for anti-party.
Arvind Sawant demanded rebel MLAs' disqualification along with the new Assembly Speaker, Rahul Narvekar.
Riding high on the success of a 'truce' between Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and rebel leader Sachin Pilot, the Congress government is confident of winning the trust vote.
In a boost for the Ashok Gehlot government, the Supreme Court had on Thursday refused to grant any interim relief on a plea of a BJP MLA seeking a stay on the Rajasthan Speaker's decision that had allowed the merger of six BSP MLAs with the Congress last year.
The breakthrough, which had threatened the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in the state, followed after Pilot met top party leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi earlier on Monday.
The development comes after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, earlier in the day, chaired a cabinet meeting in Jaipur day after Governor Mishra sent back his request, with queries, for an assembly session.
Meanwhile, the BSP had on Sunday issued a whip to its six MLAs elected to the Rajasthan Assembly, directing all of them to vote against the Congress in case of any ‘no confidence motion’ or any other proceedings to be held during the upcoming session of the Rajasthan Assembly.
Gehlot revealed that he spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi shortly after Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra, for the second time, snubbed the state government’s proposal for convening the Assembly session from July 31.
Earlier in the day, the Raj Bhawan returned the files related to the convening of the Assembly session to the Parliamentary Affairs Department of the state and raised three questions for the Ashok Gehlot government on its proposal for convening the Assembly session.
Rajasthan Speaker's counsel, Kapil Sibal, told the top court that the High Court had passed a fresh order on July 24 which raised several other issues including interpretation of the 10th Schedule and added that the Congress government will weigh the legal options.
