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Madras High Court’s two-Judge bench delivered a split verdict on petitions challenging the disqualification of 18 AIADMK MLAs loyal to sidelined leader TTV Dhinakaran. The MLAs were disqualified by the Tamil Nadu Speaker P Dhanapal on\u00a0September 18<\/span><\/span>, also\u00a0a\u00a0gazette notification was issued declaring that the vacancies to their seats have arisen due to the Anti-Defection Act.<\/span><\/p>\n TTV Dhinakaran, while questioning Chief Justice (CJ) Indira Banerjee’s decision said, “I appreciate the honourable judge who has clearly stated in the judgement that the speaker\u2019s decision is wrong. I am reminding the Chief Justice that she had given a different kind of verdict in the context of Puducherry… Is the law different in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry? The people will support us… This is not at all a setback. It is a new experience legally.”<\/span><\/p>\n “What is sad about all this is the people\u2019s disappointment that this anti-people government has been given an extension of two months. As a layman, I have my doubts,” TTV Dhinakaran said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe people will support us. This is not at all a setback. It is a new experience\u201d he further said.<\/span><\/p>\n Updates:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The verdict is delivered by two judges CJ Banerjee and Justice M Sundar.<\/span><\/p>\n The verdict came out with the difference in the judgment.<\/span><\/p>\n CJ Banerjee upheld the disqualification of the 18 AIADMK MLAs as she found speaker’s decision reasonable.<\/span><\/p>\n Justice Sundar canceled the disqualification order by the Speaker.<\/span><\/p>\n Following the split decision matter will now be referred to a third judge and it will take two more months,\u00a0 according to reports<\/span><\/p>\n In this situation, Status quo will be maintained that straight away means there will neither be bypolls in the 18 seats nor will a floor test be held till the matter is decided by the court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Madras High Court’s two-Judge bench delivered a split verdict on petitions challenging the disqualification of 18 AIADMK MLAs loyal to sidelined leader TTV Dhinakaran. The MLAs were disqualified by the Tamil Nadu Speaker P Dhanapal on\u00a0September 18, also\u00a0a\u00a0gazette notification was issued declaring that the vacancies to their seats have arisen due to the Anti-Defection Act. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":299506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2534],"tags":[1856,2532,2374,2533,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299507,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298780\/revisions\/299507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}