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Supreme Court issues notices to EC, state govts

A five-judge constitution bench comprising Chief Justice B N Kirpal, Justice V N Khare, Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justice Ashok Bhan and Justice Arijit Basayat fixed Thursday for working out a time-table for hearing of the reference.

When Solicitor General Harish Salve, appearing for the Union government, said under Article 174 of the Constitution, the Gujarat assembly has to be reconstituted by the October two deadline, the bench said, "You don't worry about that for the time being. We will work out a time schedule for hearing of the reference on Thursday."

When certain regional political parties pleaded that they should also be given an opportunity to address the court on the reference, the bench refused saying 'then it will be difficult to control the proceedings'.

The six national political parties to whom notices were issued were Congress, BJP, CPI-M, CPI, BSP and the Nationalist Congress Party.

PTI

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