Larger bench to hear pleas by political party leaders

All seven writ petitions and PILs filed by leaders of various political party leaders, who were inter alia affected by the decisions of the Assembly secretariat and other constitutional authorities, h

CHENNAI: All seven writ petitions and PILs filed by leaders of various political party leaders, who were inter alia affected by the decisions of the Assembly secretariat and other constitutional authorities, have been referred to the Chief Justice for placing them before a larger bench. Justice K Ravichandrabaabu gave a direction to this effect when the cases came up before him on Thursday.

The cases are: Privilege Committee notice against 21 DMK MLAs, including Leader of the Opposition MK Stalin for waving banned gutka packets inside the Assembly hall, DMK whip R Sakrapani’s petition to disqualify Deputy CM O Panneerselvam and 10 other MLAs for voting against the government led by CM Edappadi K Palanichamy during confidence motion on February 18, petitions from 18 MLAs belonging to rebel leader TTV Dhinakaran challenging their disqualification from the Assembly, petitions from P Vetrivel and other MLAs to disqualify OPS and 10 other MLAs, Stalin’s petition seeking floor test, the petition filed by Speaker to vacate the stay on his orders and quo-warranto filed by DMK MLA K Pitchandi against OPS and minister Pandiarajan.

In view of the public and political interest and other constitutional issues involved in the cases, he was referring the matter to the Chief Justice for placing them before a larger bench, the judge said and added that the operation of his interim orders passed on some of these petitions will continue till they were decided by the larger bench.

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