Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: Goa Legislative Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar today has said that he has not yet decided on the disqualification petition against the defecting MLAs as the matter is being heard by the Supreme Court.
He was speaking to media persons in the capital today.10 Congress and 2 MGP MLAs had defected from their respective parties and joined the BJP.
The Supreme Court had adjourned the Congress’ plea for an early hearing into the disqualification petition filed against 10 rebel Congress MLAs who switched over to the BJP.
With the Supreme Court putting off the case till the second week of February, Goa desk-in-charge Dinesh Gundu Rao said that the Supreme Court appears to be backing defections engineered by the ruling camp
Congress had filed a disqualification petition before the speaker against the 10 MLAs who had defected from their party in July 2019.