Goemkarponn desk
PANAJI: The disqualification pleas that Speaker Ramesh Tawadkar has been hearing since late 2022 have been scheduled for hearing on October 4.
The petitions were submitted after eight Congress MLAs defected to the BJP on September 15, 2022.
Amit Patkar, the president of the GPCC, and Girish Chodankar, his predecessor, have filed the applications.
After that, Chodankar went to the Supreme Court, and this Monday the Court of Appeals ordered the Speaker to hear the pleas within three months.
The Supreme Court has granted time till November 4 to Goa Assembly Speaker Rameah Tawadkar to dispose of a disqualification plea filed before him against eight MLAs, who switched to BJP in 2022.
In an order passed in a plea filed by then Congress Chief Girish Chodankar, the SC bench said “We hope and trust that the Constitutional Obligations will be discharged by the Respondent (Speaker) by the next date of hearing”.
