MUMBAI: Twelve suspended BJP MLAs have moved the Supreme Court challenging their suspension from the legislature for a year.
The MLAs filed separate petitions in groups of four. The MLAs said in their petition that the resolution for suspension was passed in undue haste and was in violation of Article 14 of the Constitution as they were not given a hearing or an opportunity to at least furnish their written explanation.
“There has been utter non-application of mind inasmuch as there was no material available for identifying the 12 MLAs from a large crowd of people,” the petition said.
The petitioners said that on July 5 the house was presided over by a nominated chairman and business was being transacted in a unilateral manner where the opposition was denied the opportunity to raise important questions.
“On one such occasion when a minister was moving a resolution in relation to the empirical data pertaining to the other backward communities, the opposition leader objected to the same,” the petition said.
