PANAJI: Speaker Rajesh Patnekar will hear the disqualification petition filed by MGP on Monday.
Senior MGP leader Ramkrishna ‘Sudin’ Dhavalikar had filed the petition against two former MGP MLAs — deputy chief minister Manohar Ajgaonkar and PWD minister Deepak Pauskar.
Recently, MGP had decided to withdraw one of the two disqualification petitions that it had filed— one in May 2019 and the other a while after that.
Patnekar has summoned Dhavalikar on March 22.
MGP had three MLAs in the 40-member House, which reduced to one after Ajgaonkar and Pauskar quit MGP to join BJP in March 2019.
At the time, the two MGP legislators had submitted a letter to the speaker claiming that two-thirds of the party had merged with BJP.
MGP had challenged the claim with Dhavalikar stating that the 10th Schedule of the Constitution does not postulate such a merger.