All you need to know about Rajasthan political crisis
- 4 years ago
There seems to be no end as the political slugfest continues to hog headlines in Rajasthan. The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Rajasthan Speaker CP Joshi to withdraw his plea. Joshi said the Rajasthan High Court has passed a detailed order and the legal team needs time to look at it before proceeding further.
As the war of words escalated with the ruling party MLAs still holed up in a resort in Jaipur and no concrete information on the whereabouts of the rebel MLAs, the Supreme Court had earlier announced that it will hear the case of the political crisis in the state on Monday.
“Voice of dissent” in a democracy cannot be shut down, the apex court had said on Thursday. It refused to restrain the Rajasthan High Court from passing an order on a plea by Pilot and 18 other dissident Congress MLAs challenging the disqualification notice against them and said it would be subject to the outcome of petition before the apex court.
The apex court said the issue raised in the plea filed by the speaker required “prolonged hearing” as it involved “larger questions” related to the democracy and how it will survive.
On Friday, the Rajasthan High Court ordered maintaining status quo on the disqualification notice issued by the state assembly speaker to the 19 dissident Congress MLAs.
No decision has been taken by the party on whether to challenge the High Court order of Friday ordering status quo on the disqualification notices issued to the 19 rebel party MLAs.
As the war of words escalated with the ruling party MLAs still holed up in a resort in Jaipur and no concrete information on the whereabouts of the rebel MLAs, the Supreme Court had earlier announced that it will hear the case of the political crisis in the state on Monday.
“Voice of dissent” in a democracy cannot be shut down, the apex court had said on Thursday. It refused to restrain the Rajasthan High Court from passing an order on a plea by Pilot and 18 other dissident Congress MLAs challenging the disqualification notice against them and said it would be subject to the outcome of petition before the apex court.
The apex court said the issue raised in the plea filed by the speaker required “prolonged hearing” as it involved “larger questions” related to the democracy and how it will survive.
On Friday, the Rajasthan High Court ordered maintaining status quo on the disqualification notice issued by the state assembly speaker to the 19 dissident Congress MLAs.
No decision has been taken by the party on whether to challenge the High Court order of Friday ordering status quo on the disqualification notices issued to the 19 rebel party MLAs.