NEW DELHI: For the 20th time, the disqualification cases against 12 Goa MLAs were on Monday pushed for hearing in the Supreme Court on December 14, after pushing them first to December 1, then December 4, and again on December 8 and lastly on December 10.
The postponements have been notified for the past four months without a single hearing since after an adjournment on August 11 by the Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde.
Twin petitions clubbed for hearing together had been filed by Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar against 10 Congress MLAs who had defected to the BJP as also another by ramkrishna (Sudin) Dhavalikar, the lone MLA of Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), against defection of two of his party’s MLAs. Most of the defectors are ministers in the BJP government led by Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant.
The two petitions are seeking a direction to Goa Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar to decide the applications pending before him for long to disqualify those who defected to prop up the BJP government in.
