Intra-Party Dissent No Ground For Defection": Team Shinde To Court

New Delhi: Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena faction has accused the party's group led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde of "floating a fake narrative to justify their anti-party stand". In a Supreme Court battle between the two factions today, the Mr Shinde faction replied that Team Thackeray "want the Speaker to be stripped of all powers and want Supreme Court to become the defection tribunal. This is unprecedented. This is not where the trial is supposed to take place."
Here are the Supreme Court highlights of Team Eknath Shinde vs Team Uddhav Thackeray:
Aug 03, 2022 13:39 (IST)
No Actual Disqualification...
Team Shinde
They (Team Thackeray) say the Election Commission cannot go ahead with the proceedings but that is not true. Just because there is disagreement between members of the legislature party, it does not mean that the Election Commission cannot decide on issues. The two are completely unrelated. There is no actual disqualification so far.

Team Thackeray
In defection issues, nobody ever says they have given up membership of the party. So they cannot make that argument that they never declared that.
Aug 03, 2022 13:37 (IST)
On Ideology And Alliances
Governor
The questions which are involved would have a wide ranging impact on the body politic of this country. In a past judgement it has been made clear that once somebody goes before the electorate he or she does not go as an individual. You go as an ideology. After winning if you go and form an alliance of a different ideology then you cannot say that the members of the party cannot raise their voice against