Congress turncoat Alpesh Thakor has questioned the maintainability of the petition filed by Congress chief whip in the legislative assembly Ashwin Kotwal seeking his disqualification under the anti-defection rules.
Thakor has pointed out that the Congress is wrongly trying to invoke the anti-defection rules against him as enshrined under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution for disqualification of a “member of the house”. 
He has submitted that he resigned from the Assembly before initiation of the disqualification proceedings and therefore, the provisions of the Tenth Schedule are not applicable to him.