Solicitor Common of India Tushar Mehta knowledgeable the Supreme Court docket on Tuesday that the Lok Sabha Speaker has issued notices to the 20 insurgent MPs on the petitions filed by the Trinamool Congress searching for their disqualification below the anti-defection regulation (tenth Schedule of the Structure).
The SG was responding to a writ petition filed by Trinamool Congress Common Secretary and Lok Sabha chief Abhishek Banerjee searching for an expeditious resolution by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on disqualification petitions.
The Writ Petition filed below Article 32 was listed earlier than a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V Mohana.
Responding to the SG’s submission, Justice Bagchi mentioned, “It’s not a query of issuing notices; it’s a query of concluding the proceedings inside a time-frame.”
Whereas the bench was inclined to subject notices to the respondents on the writ petition, SG submitted that notices might not be issued to the Speaker and his workplace. SG as an alternative mentioned that he’ll seem on behalf of the Speaker. He added that he has directions to say that the Speaker has issued notices on the disqualification petitions.
Senior Advocate Kalyan Bandhopadhyay appeared for Banerjee. The Court docket then proceeded to subject discover to the 20 insurgent MPs.
The 20 MPs named as respondents are Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Satabdi Roy, Prasun Banerjee, Rachana Banerjee, Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia, Partha Bhowmick, Arup Chakraborty, Adhikari Deepak Dev, Sayani Ghosh, Bapi Haldar, Md Abu Taher Khan, Kalipada Saren Kherwal, Asit Kumar Mal, June Maliah, Mitali Bag, Khalilur Rahaman, Mala Roy, Sharmila Sarkar and Pathan Yusuf.
The petition challenges the delay in taking a call on the disqualification proceedings towards the insurgent MPs. The dispute stems from the revolt throughout the TMC parliamentary occasion, with 20 MPs having sought to interrupt away from the occasion and align themselves with the Nationalist Residents Get together of India (NCPI). The insurgent camp has sought recognition as a separate group within the Lok Sabha.
TMC has maintained that the MPs have been elected on the occasion’s image and that their subsequent resolution to affix one other political formation attracts the provisions of the anti-defection regulation. Abhishek Banerjee had earlier submitted separate disqualification petitions earlier than Speaker Om Birla and sought their expeditious disposal.
The Speaker had allotted separate seating preparations to the 20 insurgent TMC MPs throughout the Monsoon Session.
TMC’s petition names the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and the Secretary Common as respondents, together with the 20 MPs towards whom the disqualification proceedings are being pursued.
Earlier, ShivSena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) had approached the Supreme Court docket difficult the Lok Sabha Speaker’s resolution recognising the ‘merger’ of its MPs with the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.
Case : ABHISHEK BANERJEE Versus HONBLE SPEAKER LOK SABHA AND ORS. W.P.(C) No. 1033/2026
