Uddhav Thackeray's biggest mistake exposed in Supreme Court? Quitting before losing floor test

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The Supreme Court was hearing petitions of the Uddhav Thackeray camp against the Maharashtra governor's order for a floor test and the subsequent toppling of his government. "How can we reinstate a government, which has itself admitted to have lost the majority," the court asked...

The Supreme Court said on Thursday restoring the government would have been a logical thing for it to do provided Uddhav Thackeray had lost the trust vote on the floor of the Assembly..

The bench wondered how it could reinstate the Thackeray-led government even if it were to find the governor's call for a trust vote illegal.. "How can we reinstate a government which has itself admitted to have lost the majority in the House by resigning voluntarily without facing the trust vote," asked the CJI Chandrachud-led bench...

Uddhav Thackeray resigned as the chief minister of Maharashtra on June 29 last year, hours after the apex court declined to stay the floor test scheduled to be held a day later on the directive of the Maharashtra governor...

The Constitution bench is seized of a batch of petitions filed by factions of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray in relation to disqualification proceedings against the MLAs of both camps and election of Rahul Narwekar as the new Speaker...

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