Maharashtra CM Shinde passes first hurdles, BJP will get speaker in state meeting 

Express News Service

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde gained the primary litmus take a look at of state meeting speaker elections on Sunday. The flooring take a look at has been scheduled for July 4. 

BJP nominated and Shinde camp supported candidate Rahul Narvekar gained the meeting speaker elections by 57 votes towards Shiv Sena’s Rajan Salvi. 

Out of 288 members of the House, Narvekar acquired a complete of 167 votes together with unbiased MLAs and smaller events votes whereas Maha Vikas Aghadi’s joint candidate Rajan Salvi acquired 107 votes. In this voting, the Samajwadi Party and the MIM voters have been absent. Besides, seven NCP MLAs together with Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh have been absent whereas two BJP MLAs and two Congress MLAs have been absent. 

Shiv Sena requested the performing speaker Narhari Zirwal to maintain on document that 39 Shiv Sena MLAs who’re with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde cross-voted towards the get together whip. He mentioned all voting of those cross-voted Shiv Sena MLAs are saved apart and video recorded. Shiv Sena MLA and chief whip Sunil Prabhu mentioned that these 39 rebelled Sena MLAs violated the get together’s whip and crossed voted to BJP’s candidate in speaker post-elections. He mentioned that each one these MLAs who cross-voted ought to be disqualified for anti-party actions. 

“This is nothing but murder of democracy. MLAs are not listening to the party on which ticket they elected. This fit to disqualify them under anti-defection laws. We will approach the court against it,” Prabhu mentioned. 

After the speaker election, the Shinde camp additionally placed on document within the state meeting that the 16 Shiv Sena MLAs crossed voted towards the Shiv Sena whip. Deepak Kesarkar, the spokesperson of the Shinde camp, mentioned chief whip Bharat Gogawale had requested all of the Shiv Sena MLAs together with Uddhav Thackeray and Sena MLAs to vote for the BJP’s candidate Milind Marvekar, however Thackeray group voted one other Shiv Sena candidate Rajan Salvi. 

The constitutional consultants mentioned each the camp of Shiv Sena has complained towards one another over cross-voting towards one another candidates. “Now, both parties asked disqualification of each other MLAs. The speaker will take this matter on hearing and give his verdict. After that only, they can approach to court against the speaker’s decisions,” they added. 

Interestingly, whereas counting the numbers within the state meeting, many MLAs weren’t capable of pronounce the appropriate numbers which created loads of confusion and laughter. Treasury benches hurled slogans hailing Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, whereas the opposition shouted ED when rebelled Shiv Sena MLAs counted the numbers. The head was counted to examine which facet what number of MLAs there in speaker post-elections. After the voting, the Shinde camp and the BJP requested its MLAs to return to the lodge Taj presidency in Mumbai. They shall be once more introduced again on Monday for the ground take a look at. 

Narvekar acquired elected from the Colaba constituency in Mumbai. He is among the youngest audio system of the state meeting. It is to be famous that his father-in-law Ram Raje Nimbalkar is NCP MLC and chairman of the state legislative council.

Narvekar is a lawyer by career. Earlier he was very near Shiv Sena chief Aditya Thackeray, Narvekar later joined the NCP and was very near NCP chief Ajit Pawar. He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections on an NCP ticket from the Mawal constituency, later he turned the NCP MLC. After which he joined the BJP and acquired elected in 2019 and is now elected as speaker of the state meeting.