Maharashtra crisis: Courts can’t take over the Speaker’s role, says Supreme Court

The Supreme Court tentatively agreed with the Uddhav Thackeray-faction that legislators must defer to the party’s mandate in a constitutional democracy, but added a caveat that it will have “very serious ramifications” if the court takes over the Speaker’s role in deciding whether or not to disqualify MLAs belonging to the faction led by Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde