Key Points
The Supreme Court (SC) will deliver its verdict on the disqualification plea of 16 MLAs belonging to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena on Thursday..
The judgment of the five-member Constitutional Bench, which was hearing a clutch of petitions relating to the June 2022 Maharashtra upheaval, assumes significance not just for the state but also has larger political implications as far as questions of political defections and disqualifications are concerned...
Two, the Court does not disqualify the 16 MLAs and refers the matter to the Assembly Speaker instead, in which case, there will be the status quo and Shinde will continue as CM at the head of the BJP-Shiv Sena government..
The three-member Commission relied on the test of majority, which the Shinde faction was able to prove, that it had with the support of 40 of the 67 Sena MLAs and MLCs in Maharashtra, and 13 out of 22 MPs in both Houses of Parliament...
The EC said the 40 MLAs of the Shinde group had got 76% of the votes polled by the Shiv Sena MLAs in the 2019 elections, as opposed to 23.5% for the MLAs in the Thackeray camp...
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