Reportedly supreme court will give its order on maharashtra government formation on tuesday, the apex court said while hearing the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress combine's plea against the governor's decision to swear in devendra fadnavis as chief minister. Meanwhile as uncertainty in the state mounted, the Centre on monday maintained that the bjp had the support of all 54 ncp MLAs to form a government in maharashtra and asked the supreme court for two to three days to reply to the plea against governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari's decision.
Furthermore the Apex court has maintained that it is not considering the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress' combine pleas that they be invited to form the government in Maharashtra. When appearing for the shiv sena, senior advocate kapil sibal said the combine has affidavits from 154 maharashtra MLAs and the bjp should be asked to prove its majority within 24 hours if it has the numbers.
Perhaps the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP has filed a plea against the governor's decision to swear in bjp leader fadnavis as chief minister and NCP's ajit pawar as deputy chief minister in the early hours of Saturday. Moreover the Centre told a bench comprising Justices N V Ramana, ashok Bhushan and Sanjiv Khanna that the governor had in absolute discretion invited the largest party to form government on november 23. Also Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the top court the maharashtra governor is not supposed to conduct a roving and fishing inquiry to ascertain which party has the numbers to form government.
