Supreme court hearing on shiv sena

With the Supreme Court’s decision on the The buzz of a second ‘political earthquake’ in Maharashtra in less than a year (after Also read | The NCP’s previous history of intrigue with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the startling early morning swearing-in of Ajit Pawar as Deputy Chief Minister alongside the BJP’s This was fuelled after reports that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had allegedly dropped the names of Mr. Ajit Pawar and his wife Sunetra from the charge-sheet filed in the 2019 Maharashtra State Cooperative (MSC) Bank money laundering case. Mr. Ajit Pawar, the former deputy CM, was one of the prominent and influential members of the Board of Directors of MSC Bank at the time. However, Mr. Ajit Pawar has categorically denied he had received any “clean chit” in the case. “The probe is still on in the case. I want to clearly state that we have got no clean chit as yet. I do not know how these reports have surfaced,” he said. Mr. Ajit Pawar further dismissed suggestions that he would join the BJP in the event that the Supreme Court disqualified rebel Shiv Sena MLAs as “baseless” and “having no truth whatsoever”. Speculation of fresh political alignments had also gathered pace following Mr. Ajit Pawar’s uncle and NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s The fight over Savarkar’s legacy Mr. Sharad Pawar’s stance on the JPC probe against Gautam Adani (on whom the NCP chief has lavished praise in the past) has been in stark contrast to the stance taken by the Congress, with...

New Delhi: A Governor must exercise power cautiously and be aware that calling for a trust vote could bring down the government, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday in sharp remarks while hearing a case on the Shiv Sena coup. Calling for a trust vote just on grounds of differences within a ruling party can topple an elected government, said the court. Hearing the Sena versus Sena case, the Supreme Court made strong observations on Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari's role in the Maharashtra vote that unseated the Uddhav Thackeray-led government last year. "The Governor must be conscious that calling for a trust vote may lead to the toppling of the government," said a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India, DY Chandrachud. "The Governor should not enter any area which precipitates the fall of a government. People will start ditching the ruling party and the Governor will end up toppling the ruling party. This will be a sad spectacle for democracy," said the judges, adding that governors must exercise their powers with the greatest circumspection. The three-year-old Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena-NCP-Congress coalition in Maharashtra lost power after a Mr Koshyari had asked for a test of majority, but Mr Thackeray resigned, facing defeat, making way for Mr Shinde to take power. The factions led by Mr Thackeray and Eknath Shinde have since been fighting for recognition as the "real Shiv Sena". Last month, the Election Commission handed over the Shiv Sena name a...