‘Victory of Bal Thackeray’s Hindutva’: Eknath Shinde on SC ruling on Maharashtra disaster

By PTI

MUMBAI: Rebel Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde on Monday termed the aid by the Supreme Court to him and different dissident Sena lawmakers because the victory of Bal Thackeray’s Hindutva and the beliefs of his mentor Anand Dighe.

The Supreme Court has stored in abeyance the disqualification proceedings earlier than the Deputy Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly until July 11 and sought responses to pleas by insurgent MLAs questioning the legality of notices searching for their disqualification.

The high courtroom additionally refused to move any interim order on the plea of the Maharashtra authorities that there shouldn’t be any ground check within the Assembly and mentioned they will at all times method it in case of illegality.

“This is the victory of Hindu hridaysamrat Balasaheb’s Hindutva and the beliefs of (the late) Dharamaveer Anand Dighe,” tweeted Shinde, who’s tenting with the dissident MLAs in Guwahati.

In Thane, Shinde’s son and occasion MP Shrikant Shinde mentioned Maharashtra Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal had despatched the disqualification discover to his father and 15 different dissident legislators underneath stress which is obvious from the supreme courtroom order.

““The speaker has rights in the Assembly. He has the power if anyone goes against the whip in the legislature. It does not apply to anyone not coming for any meeting. The ‘tughlaqi farman’ (the disqualification notice) was issued (by him) under pressure and the court has shown that today,” the Kalyan MP mentioned.

Shinde and a large variety of MLAs rebelled in opposition to the management of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on June 21 and are presently in Guwahati in Assam.

Their essential demand is that the Sena withdraws from the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, which additionally contains the Congress and NCP.

Shinde moved the Supreme Court on Sunday in opposition to the disqualification discover issued by the deputy speaker to him and 15 different insurgent legislators, calling the motion “illegal and unconstitutional” and searching for a keep on it.

The petition had sought instructions to the deputy speaker to not take any motion within the Disqualification Petition underneath Rule 6 of MLA Defection Rules pending earlier than the Speaker of Maharashtra State Legislative Assembly and never take any motion on the identical till the decision for elimination of deputy speaker is determined.

The Maharashtra legislature secretariat on Saturday issued “summons” to 16 insurgent Shiv Sena MLAs, together with Shinde, searching for written replies by the night of June 27 to the complaints searching for their disqualification.