Cong leader moves SC in case filed by rebel MLAs
July 12, 2019  11:31
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A Karnataka Youth Congress leader moved the Supreme Court on Friday seeking to intervene in a case filed by 10 rebel Congress and JD(S) MLAs for a direction to the Assembly speaker to accept their resignations. 


A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was told by the counsel of Anil Chacko Joseph, the Youth Congress leader, that the resignations by the rebel MLAs were nothing but a kind of defection and sought a hearing as an intervenor. 


The apex court has listed for hearing on Friday the petition of the 10 rebel MLAs seeking a direction to Karnataka Assembly speaker K R Ramesh Kumar for accepting their resignations. 


Chacko, in his application, said that a resignation had the same effect as defecting from a party and that the MLAs were "bought or persuaded to resign by payment of enormous sums of money". The apex court allowed Chacko to be heard as intervenor in the matter. -- PTI


Image: Congress leader and Karnataka Minister DK Shivkumar with former Mumbai Congress president Milind Deora and party leader Naseem Khan outside the Renaissance Hotel at Powai in Mumbai on Wednesday.
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