New Delhi, Mar 24 : The NCP-led Meghalaya Progressive Aliance (MPA) has approached the Supreme Court against the imposition of President's rule in the state accusing the Governor of acting in biased manner.
The petition filed by P A Sangma, General Secretary of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Donkupar Roy, who had headed the MPA government, alleged Governor R S Mooshahary's recommendation citing a "Constitutional breakdown" in the state was actuated with malafide.
The President's Rule was promulgated in Meghalaya on March 18, a few days after the MPA had survived a controversial trial of strength on the Assembly floor after the Speaker had invalidated the votes of four suspended MLAs.
The petitioners, also including H S Lyngdoh who was Home Minister in Roy's cabinet, and MPA spokesman Conrad Sangma, alleged the Governor has not been maitaining neutrality and issued instructions to the Speaker contrary to the provisions of the Constitution.
"The various letters written by the Governor to the Speaker from time to time indicate that the Governor has not been maitaining neutrality. The Governor was biased and issuing instructions to the Speaker was contrary to the provision of the Constitution," the peition said.
The report of the Governor was based on wholly extraneous and irrelevant grounds, it charged.