SC to hear DMK petition to disqualify 11 AIADMK MLA's on urgent basis

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi agreed to hear a petition filed by DMK seeking disqualification of eleven MLA's including Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam.

New Delhi:The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea filed by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) seeking disqualification of Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and ten other AIADMK MLAs for voting against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy in a 2017 confidence motion.

The bench headed by the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said that it will consider the petition filed by the party.

The Madras High Court had declined the plea filed last year in April.

Panneerselvam and the other ten lawmakers, then in the rebel camp, had voted against the trust vote sought by Palaniswamy on February 18, 2017.