Hearing petitions in Shiv Sena rift, apex court referred to larger bench question of whether Speaker can initiate disqualification proceedings when notice for their removal has been moved.
In 2016, SC had held that Speaker cannot decide disqualification proceedings filed under anti-defection law against MLAs when a resolution seeking him/her removal is pending.
The 2016 ruling says a speaker can't initiate disqualification proceedings against MLAs if a notice for her/his removal is pending. It came to rescue of MLAs led by Eknath Shinde last year.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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