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.
In another respite for the Sachin Pilot camp, the Rajasthan High Court on Tuesday asked the Assembly Speaker not to take any action against them till Friday when it will deliver its order on their petition.
During the hearing, senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi, representing the rebel legislators, said that only three days' time was given to the MLAs to respond to the notice in the middle of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the Rajasthan High Court is hearing a petition by Sachin Pilot and 18 other rebel Congress MLAs challenging disqualification notices served to them last week for 'anti-party activities'.
Meanwhile, for the second time in three days, on Sunday, Rajasthan Police's Special Operation Group (SOG) team -- which has been probing the audio clips released by the Congress alleging horse-trading to bring the Ashok Gehlot government -- once again returned empty-handed from a resort in Haryana where the Sachin Pilot team has been camping.
The Rajasthan police headed by SP Vikas Sharma had reached the hotel at Manesar to record the statement of dissident Congress leader Bhanwar Lal Sharma, who according to the Congress, had been involved in an alleged conspiracy with the BJP to topple the Ashok Gehlot government.
