Shinde camp gets notice from SC on Uddhav's plea

The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde and 38 other Shiv Sena legislators of his camp on a petition filed by the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray group, challenging the assembly speaker's decision to dismiss the disqualification petitions against Shinde and the MLAs that supported him during the rebellion in 2022 and holding the chief minister's faction to be the "real Shiv Sena".

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A bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, issued notices to all the 39 MLAs against whom the disqualification petitions had been filed by the Thackeray camp under the anti-defection law for defying the party whip in the assembly for the election of the speaker and the floor test in 2022. The bench, which also comprised justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, will take up the matter again after two weeks.

The Shiv Sena suffered a vertical split in June 2022, when Shinde and 38 other legislators walked out of the party then led by Thackeray and joined hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to form the government. The rebellion brought down the then Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.