Drastic, but needed: On Supreme Court removing Manipur Minister of his office

The Supreme Court’s order stripping a Manipur Minister of his workplace and disallowing him from entering the State Assembly might appear drastic and unusual, but is quite a reasonable and necessary strategy. T. Shyamkumar was elected as a Congress prospect, but defected to the BJP to join the Biren Singh Cabinet. In a landmark judgment in January, which put an end to the purposeful inactiveness of Presiding Officers on petitions for disqualifying defectors, a Bench headed by Justice Rohinton F. Nariman had actually ruled that courts have the power to fix a time-frame for Speakers to get rid of petitions under the anti-defection law. In the Manipur case, the court had actually provided a sensible period of 4 weeks–