The Supreme Court on Thursday posted for hearing in April the petition filed by Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray faction challenging the decision of Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar rejecting to disqualify legislators of Eknath Shinde group while holding them as the real Shiv Sena. A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra posted the matter for hearing in the second week of April and asked the respondents to file the reply on or before April 1.
As the matter began in the court, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal for Uddhav’s faction urged the court to decide the matter earliest. He also apprised the top court that elections are approaching therefore time is essence and opposite sides haven’t filed a reply. During the hearing, the court also questioned whether the finding of the Maharashtra Speaker while deciding the issue was contrary to the judgment of the top court. Senior Advocate of Uddhav’s faction also submitted that the Speaker has interpreted the top court’s judgement wrongly that the legislative majority is the real majority.