Shantaram claims BJP
has no case
Sandesh Prabhudesai
10 August 2007
Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik has argued that the BJP has
no strong case under the constitution.
According to him, the BJP has opted to knock the doors of
the President of India, thereby expressing lack of trust in
the Governor.
Another unprecedented move of these MLAs was to parade themselves
in the Supreme Court during the course of the hearing of their
petition, he added in a press note released in this regard.
While blaming the speaker for acting in unconstitutional
manner, he also demanded to explain their conduct of staging
a midnight coup a la Musharraf by engineering defection in
the ruling alliance in defiance of the provisions of the Constitution,
Rules of Business of the House, democratic conventions as
well as ethical and moral values.
In fact, he said, the opposition did not press for a division
vote on the trust vote of Digambar Kamat and further boycotted
the voting on demands. All motions were thus passed by voice
vote.
Mr Naik also pointed out that the Speaker had very much taken
up the confidence motion as the first item on the agenda,
as per the directives of the governor.
According to him, blaming the speaker for restraining the
MLAs for voting and calling it unconstitutional implies that
the speaker can give bigger punishment and not a smaller one.
The speaker is very much within his constitutional rights
to pass an ad-interim order under the anti-defection act,
if he finds a prime faces case in the main petition, argued
Mr Naik.
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