The DMK on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking an urgent hearing of its plea for disqualification of 11 AIADMK MLAs for voting against Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisamy in a 2017 confidence motion.
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said that it will consider listing Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s petition seeking disqualification of the MLAs, including Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam. The Madras High Court had in April last year declined a plea by the DMK to disqualify the 11 MLAs.
Panneerselvam and the other 10 MLAs, then in the rebel camp, had voted against the trust vote sought by Palaniswami on February 18, 2017.