Express News Service
MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday received the primary spherical of his battle towards the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena within the state Assembly when his authorities managed to get the ruling coalition’s candidate elected as Speaker.
The authorities is scheduled to take its confidence vote on Monday. BJP’s candidate Rahul Narwekar received by 57 votes towards Maha Vikas Aghadi’s joint candidate Rajan Salvi.
Narvekar was supported by the Shinde group. He received 167 votes towards Salvi’s 107. SP and MIM members abstained. Besides, seven NCP MLAs have been absent, together with Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh, who’re in jail. Two members every from BJP and Congress failed to point out up.
Thackeray’s Sena requested performing speaker Narhari Zirwal to tackle file that 39 Sena MLAs within the Shinde camp cross-voted towards the social gathering whip. Parallelly, the Shinde camp placed on file that 16 Sena MLAs crossed-voted. Deepak Kesarkar, spokesperson of the Shinde camp, stated its chief whip Bharat Gogawale had requested all Sena MLAs to vote Narwekar, who has turn into the youngest Speaker of Maharashtra.
Constitutional specialists stated since each camps have complained towards cross-voting, the Speaker will hear the matter and provides his verdict. “Only after that can they can approach a court against the Speaker’s decision, if necessary,”
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant on Sunday puzzled whether or not the correct Constitutional process was adopted to elect the brand new Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly and stated questions are raised relating to how the Shiv Sena insurgent faction is making an attempt to acceptable the unique social gathering.
Rahul Narvekar of the BJP was on Sunday elected Speaker on the primary day of its particular session with MLAs from the Eknath Shinde faction additionally voting in his favour.
Narvekar, who polled 164 votes, defeated Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena candidate Rajan Salvi, who received 107 votes.
“The dispute between the 39 rebel MLAs of Shiv Sena and 16 legislators who stayed with the original party will be resolved only in the Supreme Court. There are several questions of legitimacy the way the Eknath Shinde government came to power (in alliance with BJP) and carried out the Speaker’s election. Did the entire procedure take place within the framework of the Constitution?” Sawant, additionally chief spokesperson of Shiv Sena, questioned.
He stated the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena had even issued a whip (asking all of the MLAs to vote in favour of Salvi) however the insurgent MLAs didn’t budge.
“We have complained against them to the Speaker,” he stated.
Commenting on Shinde-led Sena MLAs’ stand, Sawant stated, “This may be the first such case wherein the rebels are calling their faction as the original party.”
Shiv Sena factions led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray, who heads the social gathering, had issued separate whips to the social gathering legislators to vote in favour of their respective candidates in the course of the state Assembly Speaker’s election.
(With PTI Inputs)
