Goa Congress President Girish Chodankar urged Fresh petition against 10 MLAs

Goa Congress president Girish Chodankar on Wednesday urged Speaker Rajesh Patnekar to expedite proceedings in connection with a disqualification petition filed against 10 MLAs, who quit the Opposition party in July last year to join the BJP. In his petition filed before the office of the Speaker, Chodankar has also said, that there was an unreasonable delay in processing his application filed on August 8, 2019, and the delay in disposal of disqualification petition amounts to defeating the very purpose and objectives of anti-defection law as contained in Schedule X of the Constitution. “The applicant states that since the filing of the captioned petition in the month of August 2019, there has been no meaningful progress in the matter and the adjudication in the matter is being unreasonably delayed,” Girish Chodankar said in his petition filed before the Speaker on Wednesday. (IANS)

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