The bench directed that the matter be listed next year.

New Delhi:

The Supreme Court has commented on the matter of Congress MLAs joining BJP in Goa.

The court said, "to what extent our morality has fallen now."

The Supreme Court will hear the question of law on defection.

This hearing will happen after one year.

A bench of Justice MR Shah and Justice Hima Kohli was hearing a petition filed by former Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar regarding the alleged joining of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by 12 MLAs of the Congress party and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) in 2019. is hearing.

Chodankar's counsel urged the court to consider the larger legal question involved in the case.

He said that recently 9 MLAs of Congress had joined BJP.

On this, Justice Shah said to what extent our morality has fallen.

However, saying that there was no urgency in the matter, the bench directed that it be listed next year to consider these legal questions.

In fact, Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar had approached the Supreme Court after not getting relief from the Bombay High Court, on a petition against the order of the Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly.

This petition was filed just a day before the results of the new assembly elections in Goa were announced.

After the elections held in 2017 in the Goa Legislative Assembly, in 2019, the defection of 12 Congress MLAs to the BJP was recognized by the speaker as a merger of the party.

The Speaker's recognition was challenged in the High Court, but there the Speaker's decision remained valid, so the petitioners who came to the Supreme Court to challenge it argue that the Bombay High Court completely ignored the solid arguments challenging the Speaker's move.

What happened in Goa was given the shape of a party merger.

Although the term of the legislators ended with the term of the new assembly, but the petitioners say that there is a possibility of horse-trading after the results of the new assembly elections are unclear.

Therefore, the Supreme Court should intervene on this and make concrete constitutional arrangements for the future.


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