Team Herald
PANJIM: The High Court of Bombay at Goa on Friday continued hearing arguments in the disqualification matter and has kept the petition for further arguments, on Wednesday.
The final hearing into the plea by Goa Pradesh Congress Committee President Girish Chodankar against the 10 defected Congress MLAs commenced earlier this week.
The petitioner argued that the interpretation given by the Speaker in his impugned disqualification order is contrary to the aims and objectives of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution of India, that is, prevention of defection and it defeats the very purpose the Schedule which was enacted in the year 1985 and thereafter strengthened by amendment in the year 2003.
The 10 defected MLAs, the submission states, in their response to the disqualification petition did not plead that there was a merger of original political party and therefore there was no question of any valid merger in terms of Para 4 of Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.
