There were no mala fide intentions in disqualifying five independent MLAs from the state assembly, speaker KG Bopaiah submitted in an affidavit before the high court of Karnataka on Friday.
There were no mala fide intentions in disqualifying five independent MLAs from the state assembly, speaker KG Bopaiah submitted in an affidavit before the high court of Karnataka on Friday.
The affidavit was filed before a full bench comprising justices Mohan Shantanagoudar, S Abdul Nazeer and AS Bopanna.
Bopaiah submitted that the order to disqualify the MLAs was “taken under the power vested with the speaker by the 10th Schedule to the Constitution”. He termed the allegations against him as “false and baseless”.
“The allegations against me that I have connived with chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and other respondents to disqualify the independents are totally false and baseless,” submitted Bopaiah.
He also denied the allegation that the order to disqualify the MLAs was passed yielding to pressure from Yeddyurappa or on account of allegiance to the BJP.
“Further, the allegation that I have rejected the request for seven days’ time to the independents to file complete and exhaustive reply is also false and baseless,” said the speaker’s affidavit.
In their argument, the independents submitted that they parted ways from the government due to various scams.
Meanwhile, the arguments concluded regarding the four applications filed by the independents.
On November 2, the independent MLAs had filed an application for amendment as their main petition filed on October 11 had some typographical errors.
The mistake was in the line that stated that ‘the independents had not left the party’, an indication that they had joined the BJP. The change was carried later as the independents had never joined the party.
The MLAs also filed an impleading application for additional grounds on November 2 in the main writ petition alleging that the chief minister had colluded with Yamanappa E, M Basavaraj, TT Nagaraj and some other voters to create a petition seeking disqualification of the MLAs to save his chair.
The MLAs had also made an appeal to implead the chief minister as a respondent in this case. They had also sought impleading of the speaker.
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