Summary
The Supreme Court has actually set up November 12 for hearing the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction’s plea challenging the Maharashtra Assembly speaker’s choice to set aside the ‘weapon’ sign to the Eknath Shinde faction. The court acknowledged the seriousness due to upcoming regional body elections.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday repaired November 12 for hearing a plea of the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena versus the Maharashtra Assembly speaker’s choice to allocate the’weapon’celebration sign to the Eknath Shinde-led faction.
A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi stated the hearing on the plea will begin on November 12 and if requirement occurs, it would advance November 13.
Senior supporter Kapil Sibal, standing for Shiv Sena-UBT, stated that regional body elections are most likely to be kept in January next year and for that reason there is a sense of seriousness in the matter.
He stated the court might hear the matter lastly before the regional body surveys.
“We will hear all the parties on November 12 and if need arises, we can continue the hearing on November 13,” the bench stated.
Senior supporters Mukul Rohatgi and Neeraj Kishan Kaul stood for the Shinde faction.
On July 14, the leading court repaired the matter for last hearing, stating the problem had actually been pending for long and the unpredictability can not be permitted to continue.
The Uddhav faction previously stated the speaker’s choice to turn over the celebration sign to the opposite faction in 2023 based upon legal bulk contrasted a Constitution bench decision of the leading court.
On May 7, the leading court asked the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction to focus on the regional body surveys after the celebration looked for an immediate hearing on its plea versus the speaker’s choice.
In January 2024, Speaker Rahul Narwekar declined Shiv Sena-UBT’s plea to disqualify 16 MLAs of the judgment camp, consisting of Shinde.
Challenging the orders gone by the speaker in the peak court, the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction declared they were “patently unlawful and perverse” and rather of penalizing the act of defection, they rewarded the defectors by holding that they made up the genuine political celebration.
The speaker, the plea declared, erred in holding that the bulk lawmakers of the Shiv Sena represented the will of the Shiv Sena.
In his judgment on the disqualification petitions, the speaker did not disqualify any MLA coming from the competing camps.
The speaker’s judgment even more sealed Shinde’s position as the then-chief minister, 18 months after he led a disobedience versus Thackeray, and contributed to his political heft in the judgment union, which likewise made up the BJP and the NCP (Ajit Pawar group) ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha surveys and the Maharashtra Assembly elections.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Shinde faction won 7 seats. In the Maharashtra surveys, the celebration won 57 seats, the BJP won 132 seats, while the Ajit Pawar-led NCP bagged 41 seats.
In December 2024, Devendra Fadnavis was back as the Maharashtra chief minister with Shinde and Pawar as deputy chief ministers.