On the same day that the Supreme Court agreed to hear Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s plea seeking an expeditious decision on disqualification petitions, and more than a month after he wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla urging him to disqualify 20 MPs who switched from the TMC to the Nationalist Congress Party of India, the Lok Sabha Secretariat issued notices to the legislators, asking them to submit their replies within seven days.
Reacting to the development, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra alleged on X that there had been a cover-up regarding the timing of the notices issued by the LS Secretariat. She pointed out that the party had filed 20 disqualification petitions on June 19 and then shared an image of the notice issued to the rebel MPs.
Notice dated Aug. 25th – exact date of hearing!” she wrote on X.
“Speaker LS did nothing except give them better seats at our expense. [Solicitor General] SG Tushar Mehta in Court said the Speaker had issued notices.
