Guwahati: A new twist to the ongoing political crisis in Nagaland as the Kohima bench of the Guwahati High Court on Friday granted a stay on Nagaland Governor P.B. Acharya’s order to Chief Minister Shurhozelie Liezietsu to seek a trust vote by July 15.
Informing that a single judge bench has granted a stay on the trust vote till Monday when the matter will come up for hearing, Nagaland Chief Minister’s media cell from Kohima said, “In the writ petition filed by the petitioner Mr Shurhozelie Liezietsu before the Kohima Bench of the Guwahati High Court, it has been argued that the decision of the Governor asking the petitioner, who is also the Chief Minister of Nagaland, to conduct a floor test on or before July 15 was “ex-facie unconstitutional, illegal, arbitrary and violative of the basic features of the Constitution.”
Pointing out that the process of by-poll is already under way and that it was “imperative upon the Governor to call upon the petitioner to prove majority on the floor of the House only pursuant to the by-poll.
