The Supreme Court has granted time till November 4 to Goa Assembly Speaker Rameah Tawadkar to dispose off 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, SC bench said "we hope and trust that the Constitutional Obligations will be discharged by the Respondent (Speaker) by the next date of hearing".
The next date of hearing is tentatively scheduled on November 4.
Then eight Congress MLAs—Digambar Kamat, Michael Lobo, Delilah Lobo, Kedar Naik, Sankalp Amonkar, Rajesh Faldesai, Aleixo Sequeira, and Rudolf Fernandes—joined the BJP.
The Congress petition seeks to disqualify these MLAs for violating anti-defection laws.
