Abhishek Banerjee moves Supreme Court against delay by LS Speaker in deciding disqualification petitions against rebel TMC MPs

Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Abhishek Banerjee moves has moved the Supreme Court against delay by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in deciding disqualification petitions filed by him against 20 rebel MPs who left TMC and joined the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI)

The plea will be heard tomorrow (August 25) by a bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana.

Around 20 MPs who had won on TMC ticket had defected to the relatively unknown NCPI in June this year after rebelling against the leadership of party supremo Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee.

This was immediately after TMC lost the assembly elections in West Bengal which led to discontent within the party.