Maharashtra: Kalidas Kolambkar, BJP MLA, was on Friday administered oath as pro-tem Speaker of state Assembly. Kolambkar currently represents the Wadala assembly constituency in Mumbai.
As pro-tem speaker, he will administer the oath of office to 288 newly-elected MLAs, conduct the assembly speaker's election during the three-day special session of the 15th assembly beginning December 7.
The speaker's election will be held on December 9 followed by a trust vote of the Devendra Fadnavis-led Mahayuti government. Fadnavis on Thursday evening took oath as the state chief minister, while leaders of the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance, Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar, were sworn in as deputy chief ministers at a grand ceremony in south Mumbai's sprawling Azad Maidan.
The BJP-Shiv Sena-NCP Mahayuti coalition won 230 out of the 288 assembly seats in the elections held on November 20.
The winter session of the state legislature will be held in Nagpur from December 16 to 21.
Who is Kalidas Nilkanth Kolambkar?
Kalidas Nilkanth Kolambkar is an eight-term member of the Maharashtra Assembly. He represented the Naigaum constituency four times in a row in 1990, 1995, 1999, and 2004 as a Shiv Sena candidate in the Maharashtra Assembly. He won the Wadala constituency in 2009 and 2014 as a Congress candidate. He retained the Wadala constituency in 2019 and 2024 as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.
