Dehradun: Both the Centre and the Congress are set to go in appeal after the Uttarakhand High Court on Tuesday ordered a floor test in the Assembly and allowed rebel MLAs to take part.
The Congress is challenging the permission given to the disqualified party MLAs to take part in the trust vote, though the court has ruled their votes will be kept separate and will be subject to final outcome of the petition challenging their disqualification.
The Centre , according to sources, is also set to approach a division bench over the HC order for a floor test on March 31.
The HC order came as a jolt to the Centre as it gave a new turn to the political developments two days after President's Rule was imposed in the state.
Ousted Chief Minister Harish Rawat welcomed the order, saying it was a "tremendous setback" for the Centre which was trying to bring "authoritarianism". But this order would deter them from trying to destablise non-BJP governments in states, he said.
There was no clarity on whether by ordering the floor test, the President's Rule imposed on Sunday is stayed and whether the dismissed Harish Rawat government has been
restored, PTI reported.
Senior Supreme Court lawyer and Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi had appeared for Rawat who had challenged the imposition of President's Rule and demanded its immediate quashing.
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