The Supreme Court on Friday (October 9, 2026) declined to intervene in the Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker’s decision to close disqualification proceedings against a group of All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( AIADMK) legislators who had supported C. Joseph Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam ( TVK)-led government during the trust vote in May.
The court observed that the Speaker’s decision could not be challenged by an “interloper”.
Mr. Selvakumar approached the Supreme Court after the Madras High Court rejected his petition challenging the Speaker’s June 9 decision to drop the disqualification proceedings against the AIADMK legislators.
The High Court had held that Mr. Selvakumar, being a third party to the dispute, had no locus standi to interfere in the internal affairs of the AIADMK. The court subsequently dismissed the plea.
The Speaker had acted on a May 27 letter from the party’s general secretary seeking withdrawal of the proceedings. The High Court had in August held that the AIADMK general secretary’s decision to condone the conduct of 21 legislators brought the disqualification proceedings against them to an end.
It further said that although the legislators may have voted contrary to the party whip and thereby enabled the government to survive the confidence vote, they had not ceased to be members of the AIADMK.
