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The newly formed Eknath Shinde government in Maharashtra will face a floor test to prove its majority in the assembly today. Here, within 10 hours of being elected speaker late at night, Rahul Narvekar has given a big blow to the Uddhav Thackeray faction.
Narvekar has canceled the appointment of Ajay Chaudhary and Sunil Prabhu to the post of leader and chief whip of Shiv Sena Legislature Party in the assembly. The leader of the Shiv Sena Legislature Party in the House will now be Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Chief Whip Bharat Gogavale.
Shiv Sena has objected to this decision of the speaker. MP Arvind Sawant said that Shiv Sena will go to court against this decision of the Speaker.
Demand for disqualification of 16 MLAs including Aditya
After winning the Speaker’s election, the Eknath Shinde faction has demanded the disqualification of 16 Shiv Sena MLAs, including Aaditya Thackeray. Shinde faction chief whip Bharat Gogawale has handed over a letter to the new speaker, Rahul Narvekar.
The letter said that 16 MLAs have violated the whip. Therefore their membership should be cancelled. The speaker has taken his letter and asked to consider it. The matter of membership of 16 MLAs of the rebel faction is already in the Supreme Court.
Shinde faction wins speaker election
After toppling the Uddhav government, Eknath Shinde won the first floor test in the assembly on Sunday. BJP’s Rahul Narvekar has been elected as the new speaker of the assembly. Narvekar got 164 votes, while Shiv Sena’s Rajan Salvi got 107 votes. During the voting, 7 MLAs of NCP and 2 of Congress remained missing.
After the assembly proceedings began, on the demand of the opposition, Deputy Speaker Narhari Jirwal started the counting of MLAs. There are currently 287 MLAs in the assembly and a magic figure of 144 was needed to win. However, only 275 MLAs participated in the voting.
12 MLAs did not participate in voting
Nawab Malik (NCP), Anil Deshmukh (NCP), Mukta Tilak (BJP), Laxman Jagtap (BJP), Pranit Shinde (Congress), Datta Bhare (NCP), Nilesh Lanke (NCP), Anna Bansode (NCP) in the speaker election , Dilip Mohite (NCP), Baban Shinde (NCP), Mufti Ismail Shah (AIMIM) and Ranjit Kamble (Congress) did not take part in voting.
Today’s big updates….
- Sunil Prabhu said that in violation of the whip of Shiv Sena, 39 rebel MLAs of Shiv Sena have voted in the election of the President. Action will be taken against them.
- SP MLA Abu Azmi and his colleague MLA did not vote. He was angry at changing the name of Aurangabad to Sambhaji Nagar.
- Video recording of the assembly proceedings was done. For this 9 cameras have been installed. The focus of a camera was placed directly on the Speaker’s Chair.
- Amidst the political turmoil, Shiv Sena has asked its leaders to give an affidavit of loyalty.
Stayed in Shiv Sena, changed party if ticket was not received
Rahul Narvekar was in Shiv Sena before 2014, but did not get Lok Sabha ticket, then left the party and joined NCP. In 2014, he contested from the Maval Lok Sabha seat, but was defeated. Narvekar then joined the BJP.
In 2016, Narvekar reached the Legislative Council from Governor’s quota. At the same time, in the 2019 assembly elections, he won from the Colaba assembly seat. Rahul Narvekar has got votes of 106 MLAs of BJP alliance, 39 of Shiv Sena and 19 as independents.
BJP MLAs raised slogans of Jai Shri Ram-Jai Bhavani
BJP MLAs raised slogans of Jai Bhavani, Jai Shivaji and Jai Shri Ram inside the assembly, while opposition legislators raised ED-ED slogans at the time of voting. On speaker election, NCP’s Jayant Patil said that elections are being held now, but since when we were demanding. Now I understand why the election was not being held.
Shiv Sena’s office sealed, both factions issued whip
Shiv Sena’s office inside the assembly was sealed at the behest of the Eknath Shinde faction.
In view of the ruckus in Shiv Sena, its office inside the assembly was sealed. The whip was issued by Sunil Prabhu on behalf of Uddhav Thackeray and Bharat Gogawale on behalf of Eknath Shinde. 17 Shiv Sena MLAs have voted in support of Uddhav Thackeray.
BJP and Shiv Sena MLAs meeting, Fadnavis reaches hotel
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis addressing MLAs of BJP and Shiv Sena (Shind faction) at a Mumbai hotel. CM Eknath Shinde was also present on this occasion.
The meeting of MLAs of CM Eknath Shinde faction and MLAs of Maharashtra BJP took place on Sunday night at a hotel in Mumbai. Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis also participated in it.
Shiv Sena takes a jibe at Fadnavis
Shiv Sena has targeted Devendra Fadnavis in the article of mouthpiece Saamana. It said that Shinde became the Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis had to accept the post of Deputy CM in his cabinet, this is the real earthquake. Further wrote – Fadnavis came again but he would come ‘half’ in this way, no one thought that. What will happen in the state now?
Uddhav government overturned in political tension
On June 20, around 20 Shiv Sena MLAs along with Eknath Shinde left for Surat, after which these MLAs were taken to Guwahati. The MLA stayed in Guwahati for about 6 days. After this Shinde faction claimed to have 39 MLAs with him.
At the same time, the entry of the Supreme Court was also done in this matter, after which the court has said to hear on July 11. Uddhav Thackeray resigned from his post on June 29 after the Governor’s direction to conduct a floor test.