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The Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam-led authorities is committed to honouring law values and therefore, the disqualification proceedings initiated against 4 erstwhile All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) shall beryllium taken to their logical end, Advocate General Vijay Narayan told the Madras High Court connected Monday.
Appearing earlier Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari and Justice G. Arul Murugan, the A-G said, the AIADMK leaders had initially fixed a practice to the Legislative Assembly Speaker J.C.D. Prabhakar for initiating disqualification proceedings against 25 of their MLAs who voted successful favour of the TVK led authorities connected the level of the House connected May 13, 2026 successful defiance of their enactment whip.
Thereafter, the AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami wrote to the Speaker condoning the enactment of 21 ouf of 25 MLAs and therefore, the Speaker dropped the disqualification proceedings against them. In the meantime, the remainder of the 4 MLAs S. Jayakumar, P. Sathyabama, Maragatham Kumaravel and Esaki Subaya had submitted their resignations to the Speaker and joined the TVK.
The Speaker accepted their resignations due to the fact that of the instrumentality laid down by a 3 justice Bench comprising erstwhile Chief Justices of India N.V. Ramana, Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Krishna Murari of the Supreme Court successful Shrimanth Balasaheb Patil versus Honourable Speaker of Karnataka successful 2019. In that verdict, the apical tribunal had held that a Speaker was bound to judge a resignation if it was genuine and voluntary.
“In the contiguous case, each 4 MLAs appeared earlier the honourable Speaker and submitted their resignations. There was nary uncertainty their resignations were not genuine. It was not a lawsuit of immoderate forged signatures having been attested connected the resignation letters oregon thing similar that. Hence, their resignations were accepted,” the A-G told the Division Bench.
He went connected to authorities the Speaker had nevertheless issued notices to each the 4 erstwhile MLAs (who aboriginal joined the ruling TVK) and sought their mentation with respect to the disqualification proceedings since the Supreme Court had besides ruled successful the 2019 verdict that the disqualification proceedings could proceed dehors the submission of the resignation letters by the MLAs concerned.
“Therefore, the procedures volition beryllium followed scrupulously and an bid volition beryllium passed by the Speaker by pursuing the principles of earthy justness and successful accordance with law,” Mr. Narayan assured the court. The submissions were made during the proceeding of a nationalist involvement litigation petition filed by Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi urging the tribunal to quash a gazette notification issued with respect to the acceptance of the resignations.
The judges adjourned the proceeding connected the lawsuit to Wednesday (June 17, 2026) aft advocator S.R. Rajagopal, representing AIADMK whip Agri S.S. Krishnamurthy, said his lawsuit excessively had filed a writ petition against the acceptance of the resignations and sought an interim absorption to the Election Commission of India to not behaviour byelections to the 4 constituencies Perundurai, Madurantakam, Dharapuram and Ambasamudram vacated by the 4 erstwhile MLAs.
Since the writ petition was yet to beryllium numbered, the counsel requested the tribunal to instrumentality up some the cases unneurotic connected Wednesday. In the meantime, advocator B. Ramkumar Adityan of Tiruchendur excessively filed a writ petition successful the High Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into circumstances that led to the resignation of the 4 MLAs and their joining the TVK wrong a fewer minutes thereafter.
