The Manipur Speaker’s Tribunal on Tuesday said it would hear on February 7 the anti-defection case of five JD(U) MLAs who had joined the BJP shortly after winning the state assembly elections in 2022, according to a lawyer involved in the matter.A petition seeking disqualification of the five from the assembly was filed by Manipur Congress vice-president Hareshwar Goswami.
Speaker Thokchom Satyabrata Singh heard the matter during the day and decided that it would be heard again on Friday, according to Goswami’s counsel N Bhupendra Meitei.
