J&K HIGH COURT REFUSES TO STAY NOMINATION OF 5 MLAS BY LG

Jammu and Kashmir high court Monday declined to stay the nomination of five MLAs by J&K lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha, while admitting the writ petition for final hearing. A division bench of Justice Sanjeev Kumar and Justice Rajesh Sekhri refused to grant a stay on the nominations, pending adjudication of the matter.

Ahead of the poll results, non-BJP parties in J&K had opposed the LG’s move to nominate five MLAs to the assembly. With the nomination of five members, the strength of J&K assembly goes up to 95, taking the magic figure to 48. The governing NC-Cong-CPM coalition is comfortably placed with a tally of 50 MLAs besides the support of four indepdents and the lone AAP legislator.

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