Can a petition in which one appellant claims for disqualification of a member under the Tenth Schedule against the decision of the speaker and a petition in which the appellant challenges the constitutionality of the Tenth Schedule alongwith the challenge to his disqualification by the same speaker as the above be heard together?
Brief Facts:
1. The Speaker did not disqualify a MLA while, when the party X seeked so on reasonable grounds.
2. Subsequently in another instance the Same Speaker disqualified a member of another party Y in different sceanrios.
3. The petitions are filed by firstly, Party X (for disqualification) and then by member of Party Y (for constitutionality and against disqaulification)
4. Can they be clubbed?
P.S. - It is a hypothetical situation hence answers both for and against shall be beneficial alongwith relevant provisions and precedents
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