A week after the Supreme Court directed Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar to set down a timeline for adjudication of the disqualification petitions filed against MLAs belonging to both Sena factions, Narwekar Monday heard disqualification pleas against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and other Sena MLAs.
The Shiv Sena UBT faction requested the Speaker to club all the petitions and hear them together rather than hearing them individually.
However, the move was opposed by the Shinde camp who made a submission asking the Speaker to hear all the petitions separately and stated that they had fresh evidence to submit before the speaker.
After hearing the disqualification case of 54 Sena MLAs, Narvekar gave the next date of hearing on October 13, to decide on the 34 petitions filed against each other by two factions of Sena for disqualification of 54 Sena MLAs.
During the hearing Speaker Narwekar said that he will pass an order on the procedure to be followed for carrying out the hearing and will issue the probable time scheduled to be followed for the disqualification proceedings.
‘We made a submission stating that there should be a common hearing of all the petitions and there is no need for evidence examination during the hearing,’ Asim Sarode, the lawyer representing Shiv Sena UBT told reporters after the hearing.
The move was, however, opposed by the Eknath Shinde camp.
‘Our opinion is that all the petitions are different and should be heard individually. The hearing on whether all the petitions should be clubbed or not would take place on October 13. The speaker would be issuing orders on how the whole disqualification procedure should be held and its schedule,’ Anil Sakhre, lawyer for the Shinde led Shiv Sena said.
The two sides were also at loggerheads over presenting fresh evidence to justify each other’s stand during the hearing.
The Shiv Sena UBT claimed that there is no need of evidence examination in the hearing and alleged that the submission made by the Shinde camp of presenting fresh evidence was an attempt to stall the entire process.
‘Whatever has happened during the rebellion in June last year and how things turned out after the rebellion is in front of everyone and is on record… There is no need of presenting any evidence and examining it, since it would only waste the time. We feel that the demand of presenting the evidence before the speaker and then examining it, would be time consuming and that’s what the other side, the Shinde led faction wants,’ Shiv Sena UBT MP Anil Desai said.
This was, however, countered by the Shinde camp stating that they had fresh evidence that they wanted the speaker to be aware of.
‘Our lawyer said that we want to present some evidence before the speaker and the hearing should take place considering that evidence,’ Shinde Sena MLA Sanjay Shirsat said.
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