SC to listen to on July 11 recent plea in opposition to appointment of Eknath Shinde as Maharashtra CM

By PTI

NEW DELHI:The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to listen to on July 11 a recent plea of the Uddhav Thackeray-led faction difficult the appointment of Eknath Shinde as chief minister of Maharashtra.

A trip bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari mentioned will probably be listed earlier than an applicable bench on July 11.

Senior advocate Devadatt Kamat, showing for Shiv Sena chief Subhash Desai, mentioned they’re in search of itemizing of the recent plea together with different pending petitions that are developing for listening to on July 11.

Desai has challenged the Governor’s June 30 resolution to ask a coalition of the Shinde faction and the BJP to kind authorities in Maharashtra.

The Thackeray-led faction has additionally challenged the validity of meeting proceedings held on July 3 and July 4 by which a brand new speaker of the House was elected and subsequent proceedings of ground check by which the Shinde-led coalition had proved its majority.

Earlier additionally a number of petitions have been filed by the Thackeray-led faction on varied points associated to the Maharashtra political disaster, that are developing for listening to on July 11.

Rebellion by a piece of Sena MLAs, led by Shinde, had resulted within the collapse of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities.