Supreme Court upholds MLAs’ Disqualification

The Supreme Court upheld former Karnataka assembly speaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar’s decision to disqualify 17 rebel lawmakers.

  • The SC said that under the 10th schedule of the Constitution, the speaker “does not have the power to either indicate the period for which a person is disqualified, or bar someone from contesting elections”.
  • The Tenth Schedule (the anti-defection law) was inserted in the Constitution by the 52nd Amendment in 1985. It lays down the process by which legislators may be disqualified on grounds of defection by the Presiding Officer of a legislature based on a petition by any other member of the House. ....
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