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Appearing for the group, senior advocate Harish Salve defended the then Maharashtra governor BS Koshyari’s action, which was questioned by the Uddhav Thackeray faction. Salve said “defection is only when a sizable number defects”. When the bench asked what that number was, Salve said it was ‘not for the court to decide’.