“We have brought to the notice of the Apex Court that Speaker has not given justice to his position and had not upheld the constitutional duties,” he said. “In the present case there is no merger of the ‘Original Political Party’ i.e. Chodankar said the action of the MLAs, does not amount to a valid merger of political party on account of the fact that a merger could only be of a political party with any other political party. “The legislature party of a political party by itself had no authority or power to merge with any other political party, without the merger of its original political party,” he mentioned. The petitioners state that even if two-third legislators of a legislative party had agreed to merge, in law there cannot be any merger without merger of the original political party.

Source: The Herald June 16, 2020 19:52 UTC