Shiv Sena Crisis : Will Uddhav Thackeray's Decision To Resign Floor Test Crucial In Supreme Court Case?
Live LawWill the decision taken by the Uddhav Thackeray to resign on June 29, 2022, as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra before facing the floor test scheduled on the next day have any impact in the ongoing cases before the Supreme Court? The Supreme Court on 29th July, had refused to stay the floor test/trust vote by Maharashtra Governor, but had held that the outcome of the trust vote would be subject to the final decision of the court in the petitions before it. If you lost the trust vote only because of these 39, you'd know that if they were disqualified, you'd win.” However, Singhvi, furthering his arguments, responded by saying that the pool for trust vote was "tainted" and the fact remained that nothing happened on 30th June and Thackeray did not face the trust vote. They went with the BJP to the governor, in my case.” The bench had raised a similar question to Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal too, who has stated that– "Had I not resigned, the trust vote would have happened and the same thing would have happened.In substance, it's the same thing." The governor has no locus.” While referring to Governors as “creatures of political connections”, he contended that the two orders of the Supreme Court– first, the negative injunction passed on 27.06.2022 stating that the speaker couldn't determine disqualification; and second the positive injunction of 29.06.2022 allowing the trust vote to be held, resulted in the formation of the government.