Chennai: Working president of DMK and the leader of opposition party, M.K. Stalin, has a filed a petition in the Madras HC to declare as illegal, the decision taken by the Tamil Nadu State Assembly Speaker on the floor of the assembly on February 18 on the confidence motion moved by Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palanisami.
In his petition, Stalin also sought a direction to the Assembly Speaker to conduct fresh floor test on the confidence motion moved by Edappadi Palanisami by holding secret ballot to each of the MLA of the respective legislature parties, who shall be present in the assembly, without evicting any of them, under the observation of the monitoring committee consists of secretary to Governor, chief secretary and an official from Election Commission of India.
