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Goa disqualification case again shifted to Nov 2
KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 10/20/2020 9:28:39 AM
NEW DELHI, Oct 19: Intriguingly, two pending writ petitions for disqualification of the Goa ministers and MLAs have been postponed for the ninth time since the last hearing on August 11 by a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde.
They were listed to come up on October 26, immediately after the Dussehra holidays, but the computer-generated status on the court's website says it is tentatively to be tested a week later on November 2.
Both the cases are against Goa Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar sitting over the applications filed to disqualify 12 MLAs, many of whom defected to become the ministers in the present BJP government in the state.
The first petition is by Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar against 10 Congress MLAs defecting to the BJP to help it gain a majority after the elections to form the government. The second petition is by SudinDhavalikar, the lone MLA of MaharashtravadiGomantak Party (MGP), against defection of his party's two MLAs: Deputy Chief Minister Manohar Ajgaonkar (62) and PWD minister Deepak Prabhu Pausar (46).