PANJIM: The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the disqualification petition against 10 MLAs who defected from the Congress to the ruling BJP.
The hearing, which was scheduled to August 7, has been now scheduled to July 24 following a request by the petitioner, State Congress president Girish Chodankar.
A 3-Judge Bench had on June 16 ordered the issue of notice, returnable in four weeks, to Speaker Rajesh Patnekar and the 10 MLAs, some of whom are ministers.
Advocate Sahil Tagotra, representing the petitioner, in an application to the Registrar, Supreme Court, on July 16, had requested that the matter be listed for hearing on or before July 20.
The petitioner is seeking the Court’s directions to the Speaker to dispose of the disqualification petition filed in August 2019 within one month. Chodankar has relied on a recent SC ruling that the Speaker should decide such disqualification pleas within a reasonable time frame.
