Congress veteran Prithviraj Chavan has said that the Maharashtra government will have to move Supreme Court against Governor B S Koshyari's letter mandating Uddhav Thackeray-led dispensation to face floor test on Thursday.

Koshyari has asked the Maharashtra Legislature Secretary to hold a floor test of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government at 11 am on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said that conducting a floor test will be contempt of court as the Supreme Court has deferred the matter of disqualification of 16 MLAs to July 11.

'How can a floor test be asked for when the disqualification of 16 MLA has deferred by the Supreme Court till 11th July?

'How can these MLAs participate in the floor test till their disqualification status not decided and the other matters for which notice sent is sub judice?

'This would be contempt of court proceedings if floor test conducted despite the matter not getting final hearing in the SC,' Chaturvedi said in a series of tweets.  -- with PTI inputs