AIADMK crisis update: Madras High Court adjourns disqualification case, stays floor test

CHENNAI:The Madras high court has extended its stay on the floor test in the Tamil Nadu assembly, while agreeing to hear the disqualification of 18 AIADMK MLAs on October 4. The court, however, refused to stay Speaker’s decision.

The MLAs, belonging to the TTV Dhinakaran camp, had approached HC on Tuesday terming the disqualification as “illegal”. The Dhinakaran camp relied on the precedent of Karnataka where in a case in 2011 SC had quashed Karnataka assembly Speaker’s decision to disqualify 16 MLAs ahead of the no-confidence motion in 2010 that had ensured continuance of the then Yeddyurappa government.

However, the Speaker’s counsel emphasised the two cases are different.


N Raja Senthoor Pandian, the counsel for the MLAs, told ET: “This order ratifies our plea that the order from the Speaker to disqualify MLAs is not right.” The ruling AIADMK, however, maintained the disqualification has not been stayed and the case “has only been adjourned”.