The Madras High Court rules that the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker is right to have dropped disqualification proceedings against 21 AIADMK MLAs. The court declines to order the Speaker to initiate disqualification proceedings against additional members beyond those already acted upon, after the lawmakers voted in favour of the TVK government.
The bench, led by Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan, refuses to issue the direction sought in a petition. The request was to take up disqualification proceedings against all 25 AIADMK MLAs who participated in the vote. Both outlets report that the High Court does not find grounds to mandate the broader initiation of proceedings.
While the coverage focuses on the court’s outcome, the underlying issue remains the same: whether the Speaker should proceed with disqualification for all AIADMK MLAs involved in the vote or only for those for whom proceedings were already dropped. The court’s decision maintains the Speaker’s existing course of action regarding 21 MLAs.
