Delhi: Supreme Court will hear the plea’s filed by the Siva Sena, NCP and Congress on Sunday at 11:30am against the Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s invitation to the Fadnavis, to form government and swearn-in as Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

     The Siva Sena, NCP and the Congress on Sunday night moved the Supreme Court seeking the quashing of Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s decision to invite Fadnavis to form a government. The three party alliance said that the governor’s decision was unconstitutional, arbitrary, illegal, void-ab-initio and violative of Article 14 of the constitution.

      The petitioners in their petitions said that the governor acted in a partition manner, it was malafied and for extraneous considerations without a primefacie satisfaction based on objective material. It urged that the top court to direct the governor to invite the alliance to form the government with Uddhav Thackeray as Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The alliances have the support of more than 144 legislatures in the assembly.

          The three parties in a joint petition filed by the alliance contended that they, along with the support of eight independents reached upto the mark of 162 MLA’s. Lawyers who filed the petition sought an urgent hearing and cited the instance of Karnataka where a challenge to the Swearing-in of Chief Minister B S Yediurappa was heard at night.