The 12 Bharatiya Janata Party legislators, whose suspension has been lifted by the Supreme Court, have countered the State Legislature’s move of asking for reviewing the SC decision on the ground that it amounts to judicial interference. They say the SC had given the legislature an opportunity to present its side, and also suggested resolving the matter internally, instead of requiring it to give a judgment in the MLAs’ petition.

Chairman of the Maharashtra legislative council, Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar, his deputy Dr Neelam Gorhe and deputy speaker in Assembly, Narhari Jhirwal, met President Ram Nath Kovind at the Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on Friday evening. They later told mediapersons that they had urged Kovind to reference the SC to review the matter by a larger bench.