mumbai the coming week is set to be crucial for maharashtras politics in view of the possibility of the supreme court pronouncing its verdict on a plea for disqualification of shiv sena legislators who had joined eknath shinde to dislodge the mva government led by uddhav thackeray a bench headed by chief justice d y chandrachud heard the case for 12 days from february 14 and reserved the verdict on march 16 it is expected the judgement would be pronounced soon on june 21 2022 deputy speaker narhari zirwal had initiated disqualification proceedings against 16 sena legislators who did not quit the party but extended support to the government led by shinde however sc stayed the disqualification proceedings and a few days later the sena led by thackeray lodged a complaint against 23 legislators saying they too should be disqualified the uddhav team has filed two separate petitions in sc one for disqualification of 16 legislators and another for disqualification of 23 legislators who joined shinde it is not a question of only 16 legislators a total of 39 legislators are under scrutiny sena has demanded their disqualification shiv sena ubt leader anil parab said the ubt sena leader said that the assumption of leader of opposition ajit pawar that if 16 legislators are disqualified there is no threat to government is wrong in our view a decision will have to be taken on 39 legislators if they are disqualified there will be a minority government in the state he said meanwhile several developments took place after the new government was formed the election commission of india recognized the shinde faction as the real sena and allotted the bow and arrow symbol to it shinde faction leaders as well as deputy chief minister devendra fadnavis are confident that the verdict will be in favour of the shinde factiona senior ncp leader said if sc directs the speaker of the assembly to take a decision on disqualification there is no threat to the government but if it takes a different view the government appears to be in trouble the ncp leader said the way shiv sena leaders joined hands with eknath shinde has raised several questions how do we recognize a split in the political party or legislature party our contention is the legislature party comes from a political party so it is not of importance compared to the political party he said on the tenth schedule the ncp leader said if twothirds leave the party it is binding on them to merge with a political party otherwise they stand disqualified we expect the disqualification plea may be referred to the speaker while sc may make observations on the governors letter to shinde for formation of government he said congress general secretary sachin sawant said the mva expects a good verdict we are sure justice will be done to us he said