Ajit Pawar faction moves HC against speaker's decision on Sharad Pawar camp MLAs

The NCP led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Tuesday challenged in the Bombay High Court the state assembly speakers decision to not disqualify 10 MLAs from the Sharad Pawar campThe petitions requested the high court to quash Speaker Rahul Narwekars recent order by declaring it bad in law and also disqualify all the 10 legislatorsThe petitions were filed by Anil Patil chief whip of the Ajit Pawarled NCP through advocate Shrirang Varma challenging the legality propriety and correctness of the order passed by Narwekar dismissing the disqualification petitions filed against the MLAs belonging to the Sharad Pawar factionA division bench led by Justice G S Kulkarni said it would hear the matter on WednesdayNarwekar had last week ruled that the faction led by Ajit Pawar is the real Nationalist Congress Party but didnt disqualify MLAs of either factionThe speaker has wrongly arrived at the conclusion that the split in the NCP was intraparty dissent As the speaker has ruled that the NCP led by Ajit Pawar is the real political party then the disqualification petitions should have been allowed too as per the petitionsAjit Pawar and his uncle Sharad Pawar are locked in a turf war after Ajit and 8 MLAs joined the Shiv Senaled Maharashtra government in July 2023Both the factions were fighting over primarily two issues who the party belongs to and whether the MLAs from the opposite faction attract disqualification under Section 21A of the Tenth ScheduleThe Election Commission on February 7 decided the dispute in favour of Ajit Pawar recognising the faction led by him as the real NCP and also allotted it the partys clock symbolThe EC later granted the Nationalist Congress Party Sharadchandra Pawar as the name for the groupNarwekar on February 15 held that the NCP faction led by Ajit Pawar was the real NCP and that the antidefection provisions in the Constitution cannot be used to stifle internal dissentThe Supreme Court on Monday directed that the Election Commissions order of February 7 granting the name of Nationalist Congress PartySharadchandra Pawar for the group led by Sharad Pawar will continue till further ordersThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever