Sena fails to get urgent hearing in top court
Summary
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Maharashtra governor’s decision not to grant three days to submit a letter of support for government formation but failed to get an urgent hearing. The Shiv Sena has sought a directive from the apex court to quash the governor’s decision, taken on Monday, of not giving it the opportunity to prove majority on the floor of the House. “It is ex-facie (on the face of it) arbitrary, unreasonable, capricious and mala fide exercise of power in order to ensure that the Shiv Sena is precluded from getting a fair and reasonable opportunity of proving majority on the floor of the House,” the petition said. It claimed that there was ample constitutional convention to show that the next largest party had been invited to form the government and to demonstrate its strength on the House floor. The governor has to allow reasonable time to political outfits to present the conclusion of their negotiations before taking a decision to reject any claim to form the government, it said.