The Supreme Court issued notice on Abhishek Banerjee's plea concerning disqualification petitions. The court sought responses from twenty rebel Members of Parliament. Hours later, the Lok Sabha Speaker's secretariat issued notices to these rebel MPs. Banerjee's petitions seek disqualification under the anti-defection law. The rebel MPs had joined the Nationalist Citizens Party of India.

Abhishek Banerjee has approached the Supreme Court seeking an urgent decision from the Speaker. The plea concerns the disqualification of twenty Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MPs.…

TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, in a plea before the top court, has sought an expeditious decision on the same by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. | India News