The apex court said it cannot disqualify Eknath Shinde and 15 other MLAs for revolting against then CM Uddhav Thackeray in June last year as he resigned without facing the floor test.
After the Supreme Court pronounced its judgment on the Maharashtra political crisis, the state chief of the Congress party Nana Patole said that it is once again proven that the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is dangerous for the democracy and stoops to any level for power
Judgment poses no immediate danger to Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government. But it makes a hostile takeover of state governments with active gubernatorial support more difficult