SC no to urgent hearing on ABHM's plea agst invite to Cong-JD(S) to form govt in K'taka

The Supreme Court today refused to accord urgent hearing on a plea filed by the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) challenging Governor Vajubhai Vala's decision to invite the Congress-JD (S) combine to form government in Karnataka.

The matter was mentioned before a bench comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and Navin Sinha for urgent listing but the court refused the request and said the plea be heard in the due course.

"You have mentioned it but we have not accepted it. It will come up in due course," the bench told the counsel representing the outfit.

The ABHM, in its plea, has alleged that the post-poll alliance of
The plea, filed through lawyer Barun Kumar Sinha, has sought a declaration that the post-poll Congress-JD (S) alliance is a "fraud on the electorate and violative of the Constitution ... whereby electorate have been misled and deceived by both political parties."