MAYAWATI versus MARKANDEYA CHAND AND ORS.
The Speaker's findings regarding existence of a split in BSP MLAs and consequent immunity from disqualification under Tenth Schedule are not vitiated by perversity; judicial review does not permit the Court to substitute its own judgment unless the finding is so perverse that no reasonable tribunal could have arrived at it.
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- Disqualification of legislative assembly members
- Defection
- Speaker's power
- Judicial review
- Split in political parties