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Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) wide caput and Villupuram MP D. Ravikumar connected Friday (May 15, 2026) urged Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay against inducting the MLAs from the breakaway faction of the AIADMK into his Cabinet, arsenic it would “raise superior questions of governmental morality and ethical propriety.”
In a statement, Mr. Ravikumar said that AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami unsocial possesses the authorization to name the enactment Whip, which has been affirmed by the Supreme Court successful the Subhash Desai v. State of Maharashtra judgment.
“The Court categorically held: the governmental enactment and not the legislature enactment appoints the Whip and the Leader of the enactment successful the House. Further, the absorption to ballot successful a peculiar mode oregon to abstain from voting is issued by the governmental enactment and not the legislature party. Therefore, the whip issued by the AIADMK enactment is binding upon each members elected connected the enactment ticket. Any MLA who defies specified a whip is liable to look disqualification proceedings nether Paragraph 2 of the Tenth Schedule,” observed Mr. Ravikumar.
While determination was nary contiguous law prohibition against appointing immoderate of these MLAs arsenic Ministers, helium argued that legality unsocial cannot beryllium the sole trial successful matters affecting law morality and antiauthoritarian ethics.
“If the Chief Minister nevertheless intends to induct them into the Ministry, the lone constitutionally cleaner people would beryllium for those MLAs to resign their seats, articulation the TVK formally, and question a caller mandate from the radical done by-elections,” helium said.
“Ultimately, the decisive question is governmental alternatively than legal: volition the radical judge specified defections and re-elect those MLAs nether a antithetic enactment banner? That unsocial volition trial the legitimacy of specified a governmental course,” Mr. Ravikumar said.
