Article 179 speaks about removal of the Speaker or Deputy Speaker. The clause (c) states that a Speaker or his Deputy may be removed from his office by a resolution of the Assembly passed by a majority of all its then members.
A day after the Uddhav Thackeray faction submitted a plea before Deputy Speaker Narhari Jhirwal to disqualify the rebel MLAs, the Ekanth Shinde faction on Friday gave a notice of no-confidence motion against the deputy speaker.
They in a letter to the Legislature Secretary argued that a perusal of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Rules, 1960 would show that conspicuous by its absence is a provision that empowers the Speaker/Dy Speaker to overturn a resolution passed by the house.