Maharashtra political crisis: Supreme Court hears Shiv Sena plea against floor test [LIVE UPDATES]

The Supreme Court is hearing the plea by the Uddhav Thakceray camp of Shiv Sena challenging Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari's decision to hold floor test in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly tomorrow.

The case was mentioned today morning by Senior Advocate Dr Abhishek Manu Singhvi before a bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala seeking urgent listing citing the fact that the floor test is scheduled for 11 am tomorrow.

The bench the agreed to hear the case at 5 pm today.

Maharashtra has been embroiled in political crisis after cabinet minister Eknath Shinde and a rebel group of MLAs left the State first for Surat in Gujarat and then for Guwahati where they have been encamped for more than a week now.

Shinde group has expressed its displeasure with the alliance by Shiv Sena with the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party.

It has claimed that it stands for the cause propounded by founder Balasaheb Thackeray and has named itself ‘Shiv Sena (Balasaheb)'.

The Deputy Speaker of the Assembly had then served notice for disqualification on 12 of the rebel MLAs.

However, they had then approached the Supreme Court challenging the disqualification notices as well as the appointment of Ajay Choudhari as Shiv Sena Legislature Party leader.

The top court had on June 27, granted interim relief to Shinde and the rebel MLAs by extending the time to file response to the disqualification notice sent by the Deputy Speaker, till July 12. The deadline was set to expire at 5.30 pm on June 27.

Live updates from the hearing below.