The Supreme Court on 13th November upheld the disqualification of 17 Congress-JDS MLAs but has allowed their plea to contest the by-elections.
Crux of the Matter
Assembly speaker KR Ramesh Kumar had disqualified 17 MLAs of ruling the Congress-JD(S) coalition before the trust vote in July.
A three-judge bench of justices NV Ramana, Sanjiv Khanna and Krishna Murari upheld the disqualification but maintained that the Speaker was not empowered to disqualify the lawmakers for the entire tenure of the term.
The MLAs had quit the Assembly as part of an alleged BJP attempt to bring down the Congress-JDS government.
By-polls for the 15 out of 17 seats is scheduled to take place on the 5th December.
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Karnataka political crisis In July 2019, several MLA’s submitted their resignations to the speaker, which led to the fall of the then United Progressive Alliance government in Karnataka. 14 INC and 3 JD(S) MLAs were responsible for the political crisis. 1 KPJP MLA also left the coalition government. Assembly elections in 2018 resulted with the BJP emerging as the single largest party with 104 seats. The INC and JD(S) formed a majority coalition government after the election, with a combined 120 of the 224 seats. More Info
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