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PANJIM: State Congress president Girish Chodankar, through his counsel, on Wednesday once again urged the Supreme Court for urgent hearing on the disqualification petition against 10 MLAs, filed for defecting from the Congress to the BJP, last year.
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In his application, the fifth one since August, Chodankar has requested not to delete the matter listed from the tentative cause list of October 12.
The disqualification petitions filed against the 10 MLAs by Chodankar, along with a petition against two MLAs filed by MGP MLA Ramkrishna (Sudin) Dhavalikar, all who joined BJP, were to come up for hearing before the Apex Court on August 26.
“This is the fifth application mentioning for urgent listing of the matter. In fact, now this is a request for the matter not to be deleted from the tentative date of October 12,” the application mentioned. Adv Sahil Tagotra, in an application to the Registrar, Supreme Court, said, “Since the main issue in the Writ Petition itself concerns inordinate delay by the respondent (Speaker Goa State Legislative Assembly), any additional delay in listing of the matter, despite specific directions of the Court to list the same, will irreversibly prejudice the petitioner’s case.”
“The petition seeks directions to the respondent (Speaker), as the disqualification petition filed before him is pending for more than one year now,” it added further.
The disqualification petition filed before the Speaker is pending since August, 2019. Failure on part of Speaker to act, forced Congress to move Supreme Court in June, this year.
