{"id":316628,"date":"2019-11-13T05:45:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316628"},"modified":"2019-11-13T05:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:47:37","slug":"sc-upholds-disqualification-of-17-karnataka-mlas-but-allows-them-to-contest-upcoming-bypolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-upholds-disqualification-of-17-karnataka-mlas-but-allows-them-to-contest-upcoming-bypolls\/","title":{"rendered":"SC upholds disqualification of 17 Karnataka MLAs but allows them to contest upcoming bypolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld disqualification of 17 rebel Karnataka MLAs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the top court has cancelled the then Assembly Speaker&#8217; KR Ramesh Kumar\u2019s decision to bar the rebel MLAs from contesting polls till 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Court ruled that the MLAs will be able to contest December 5 bypolls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court had on October 25 reserved its verdict on the petitions filed by these disqualified MLAs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumar had disqualified these 17 MLAs belonging to the Congress (14) and the Janata Dal-Secular (3) ahead of a trust vote in July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The then chief minister HD Kumaraswamy had resigned after losing the trust vote, which cemented the way for the BJP-led government in the state under BS Yediyurappa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The verdict was delivered by three-judge bench of Justices NV Ramana, Sanjiv Khanna and Krishna Murari.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld disqualification of 17 rebel Karnataka MLAs. However, the top court has cancelled the then Assembly Speaker&#8217; KR Ramesh Kumar\u2019s decision to bar the rebel MLAs from contesting polls till 2023. The Court ruled that the MLAs will be able to contest December 5 bypolls. The top court had on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1430,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316628"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316634,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316628\/revisions\/316634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}