Uddhav Thackeray vs Eknath Shinde : Supreme Court Poses Multiple Questions On Governor's Role | Live Updates From Hearing [March 15]

SG Mehta: Whether it's a floor test or a no confidence motion - the result is the same. Therefore, that can never be a ground for invoking your lordships' equity jurisdiction.

SG Mehta: Continuous existence of the trust gives you legitimacy in democracy.

SG Mehta: We say that defection is a sin. Running the government after losing the trust of the house is a larger sin to which the governor should not be a party.

SG Mehta: It's only in extraordinary circumstances that there would be a departure from floor test- otherwise the floor test is the rule.

SG Mehta: Outcome of trust vote is the ultimate litmus test of democracy.

SG Mehta: He should not only command the confidence but continue commanding that confidence- that is the requirement of democratic functioning.

SG Mehta: Here, they specifically say in writing that they want to withdraw support.

SG Mehta: Shivraj Singh Chouhan was a case of running assembly and in midst of that the Chief Minister lost his confidence.

SG Mehta: And the threshold for my lordships would be- Whether there was any material. Whether based upon that material your lordships may have taken up a different view may not be the case.

SG Mehta: It's not his right, it's his obligation to call for floor test. And as per me, the threshold is- Some material which creates a doubt in his mind.