MP Floor Test Hearing [Day-2] Live-Updates From Supreme Court

Can the Governor fix agenda of the house? Asks Chandrachud J. 

Rohatgi: The best example of this is eludicated in the SK Bommai case. Its pertinent to note that in this case, the Karnataka Assembly was running!

Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi (for petitioners) now starts.

They seem to suggest that the only way of making a govt. fall is a vote of no-confidence in a running assembly, Rohatgi says.

Senior Advocate H. Raval for the Principal Secretary of Vidhan Sabha.

“I am for Respondent no. 3” says Raval

Rohatgi : “Who is R3?”

Raval : “Surprising, you impleaded me, do not know who that is?”

How can the governor form an opinion that the Government is in minority when the resignations of rebel MLAs have not been accepted by the Speaker?, Tankha asks

Tankha submits that Governor should not get into "political thicket".

Sibal to Rohatgi- “Please lets not accuse each other of that, seen you take a lot more than two days at a time in cases aplenty!”

Senior Advocate Vivek Tankha now begins arguments on behalf of the state of Madhya Pradesh

Sibal apologises for taking so long to finish. Sibal says that Rohatgi looks annoyed to him.

To this Rohatgi retorts, “I’m not annoyed, I want to argue. Not come to court for this, been two days!”

The law is clear, the Governor only comes in when there is no running session, says Sibal. 

Lets not intertwine powers of the Governor with summoning a house with the power to call on the house during a running session. This is sure to result in Constitutional anarchy : Sibal.