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The Supreme Court today delivered its much anticipated verdict on the #MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis. The SC has unanimously held that the the Governor was justified in inviting Mr. Shinde to form a Government with the support of the BJP (contd.)
Mr. Thackeray’s resignation as CM even before undergoing the floor test, rendered the matter purposeless even before it began. The Court has observed that owing to Mr. Thackeray’s resignation, it is unable to restore status quo as it does not have the powers to undo a resignation
Importantly, the Court has also referred the decision in the Nebam Rebia case, strongly referred to by the Petitioners, to a larger Bench. The Court has stated that the situation that arose in the Nebam case, did not actually arise in the present case.
This decision has also stalled the Petitioners’s attempts to malign the Election Commission as biased and curtail its powers. The Court has asserted that the ECI cannot be prevented from determining which group the symbol of the Shiv Sena should be granted to
As noted by the SC itself, this matter, which has taken up an immense amount of the Court’s time and resources, was a purely academic exercise; visibly undertaken to soothe the Shiv Sena’s ego and salvage past glory
The pointlessness of the matter is bolstered by the fact that the Maharashtra Government, under the able leadership of CM Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, has already begun efficiently functioning
Importantly, Mr. Thackeray’s final act of betraying the people’s mandate has fallen flat; as both the Apex Court and the people of Maharashtra have made their resounding decision, revealing that the crisis was not within Maharashtra, but the top rung of the Shiv Sena itself.
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