Manipur Speaker's Tribunal hears disqualification cases against 5 JD-U MLAs

Guwahati: Speaker’s Tribunal continues hearing of disqualification cases against 5 JD-U MLAs who joined BJP. The next hearing is in three weeks.

The Speaker’s Tribunal heard disqualification cases which were filed against 5 MLAs who defected from JD(U) to BJP in Manipur.The five MLAs are MLAs Khumukcham Joykisan Singh, Ngursanglur Sanate, Md Achab Uddin, Thangjam Arunkumar and LM Khaute.

The Counsel N. Bupenda Meitei, Advocate for petitioner, Hareshwar Goshwami, in Disqualification Case No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of 2024, submitted for urgent hearing and speedy disposal as all the pending disqualification petitions is to be decided within three months of the filing of the petitions in the Speaker's Tribunal as per the Supreme Court verdict.

He also pleaded for making the copies of orders of daily proceedings or hearing of the Speaker’s Tribunal be made available. He submitted for a change of year from 2024 to 2022, as his client filed the five disqualification petitions against the defected 5 JD(U) MLAs in 2022 and not in 2024, and sought for a separate reasoned order on the change of the year from 2022 to 2024.

Ajoy Pebam, Advocate, appeared for petitioners in Disqualification Case No. 6 and 7 of 2024 for M. Dorendro Singh and M. Surjit Singh. Senior Advocate L. Anand Singh, junior associates of Senior Advocate R.S. Reisang and other learned counsels appeared for respondents in disqualification cases in today’s proceedings at the Speaker’s Tribunal.

The respondents’ counsels pressed for 3 to 4 weeks’ time while the petitioners’ counsels argued for speedy disposal of the pending disqualification matters. After hearing both the parties through their counsels, the Speaker’s Tribunal gave three weeks’ time to the respondents for their replies and to hold the next proceedings after three weeks’ time.