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  Eknath Shinde breaks down in Maharashtra Assembly recalling tragic death of his 2 children | Watch

  India | July 04, 2022 21:43 IST

  Shinde's children Dipesh and Shubhada, who were 11 and 7, had drowned in the family's ancestral village. Shinde's older son Shrikanth is a Sena MP now.

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  Maharashtra Assembly Speaker election: 'It seems Governor was sleeping for 1.5 yrs', says Congress

  India | July 03, 2022 15:02 IST

  Earlier this year, leaders of the then ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA-comprising the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress) had urged Koshyari to approve the schedule for the Assembly Speaker’s election during the budget session (in March).

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  Maharashtra: Who is Rahul Narwekar, the youngest ever assembly speaker in the country?

  India | July 03, 2022 13:52 IST

  Maharashtra became the only state in India where the presiding officers of the Legislature are in-laws. BJP MLA Rahul Narvekar has become the new Speaker of the Assembly. His father-in-law Ramraje Naik of NCP is the chairperson of the Legislative Council.

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  Maharashtra assembly: BJP's Rahul Narvekar elected new speaker, stage set for floor test tomorrow

  India | July 03, 2022 19:45 IST

  The post of Speaker was vacant since February last year after Nana Patole of Congress quit.

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  Maharashtra: MVA fields Sena's Rajan Salvi for Assembly Speaker post against BJP's Rahul Narvekar

  India | July 02, 2022 15:09 IST

  Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat said Salvi is the opposition's candidate for the election to the speaker's post.

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  'Unconstitutional and arbitrary': SC quashes suspension of 12 BJP MLAs in Maharashtra

  India | January 28, 2022 13:41 IST

  Twelve BJP MLAs were suspended from the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for one year for allegedly misbehaving with the presiding officer.

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  12 BJP MLAs, suspended from Maharashtra assembly over 'misbehaviour', move SC

  India | July 22, 2021 16:29 IST

  At least 12 BJP MLAs, who were suspended from the Maharashtra assembly recently over their alleged misbehaviour, knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court on Thursday.

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  Speaker suspends 12 BJP MLAs from Maharashtra Assembly, BJP calls it conspiracy

  News | July 05, 2021 16:50 IST

  Twelve BJP MLAs were on Monday suspended for the period of one year from Maharashtra assembly for allegedly creating ruckus in ongoing monsoon session of the House and “misbehaving" with Speaker in-chair Bhaskar Jadhav. The motion to suspend the MLAs was moved by state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anil Parab and passed by a voice vote.

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  Speaker suspends 12 BJP MLAs over unruly behavior after ruckus in Maharashtra Assembly

  News | July 05, 2021 16:20 IST

  Maharashtra Speaker in-chair Bhaskar Jadhav has suspended 12 BJP MLAs for one year over their unruly behavior in the House on Monday. The Opposition has in turn accused the Speaker of abusing some of the leaders during the ongoing Assembly session.

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  12 BJP MLAs suspended from Maharashtra assembly for one year over 'misbehaviour'

  Politics | July 05, 2021 16:21 IST

  ​At least twelve BJP MLAs were suspended from the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for one year after the state government accused them of "misbehaving" with presiding officer Bhaskar Jadhav in the Speaker's chamber on Monday.

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  OBC quota issue: Maharashtra Assembly passes resolution to seek 2011 census data from Centre

  India | July 05, 2021 14:51 IST

  The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Monday passed a resolution urging the Centre to provide the 2011 census data to enable the State Backward Class Commission to prepare an empirical data of the OBC population.

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  Mumbai Police arrested Remdesivir supplier whom BJP approached for stock: Fadnavis

  News | April 18, 2021 7:00 IST

  BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly, Devendra Fadnavis, has alleged that Mumbai Police on April 17 arrested a remdesivir supplier whom BJP had approached to supply the anti-viral drug to the state amid the surge in COVID cases.

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  'Failure of Constitutional machinery pointed out by Governor': Fadnavis over vacant post of Speaker

  News | March 05, 2021 16:48 IST

  Maharashtra Governor pointed out that the post of Assembly Speaker is vacant for over a week, this is equivalent to failure of Constitutional machinery, said Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis on March 05.

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  Devendra Fadnavis dubs winter session of Maharashtra Assembly as 'farce'

  India | December 15, 2019 14:43 IST

  Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said the state Assembly's winter session, set to begin from Monday, is a "farce" as the Uddhav Thackeray-led government has not completed the allocation of portfolios to minsters.

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  Who is Nana Patole, the newly elected Maharashtra Assembly Speaker

  Fyi | December 01, 2019 14:58 IST

  Congress' Patola, one of the prominent leaders in Maharashtra, had joined BJP ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

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  Maharashtra Assembly to elect Speaker today, amid BJP protest

  Politics | December 01, 2019 9:26 IST

  Patole represents the Sakoli Assembly segment in Vidarbha while Kathore is an MLA from Murbad in Thane district. They both are in their fourth term as MLAs.

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  Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar, other MLAs take oath at Maharashtra Special Assembly Session

  Politics | November 27, 2019 8:51 IST

  The newly-elected members couldn't take an oath even one month after the results of the assembly polls were announced, due to political ups and downs in the state.

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  Advocate General meets Maharashtra Governor on govt formation

  Politics | November 07, 2019 17:31 IST

  Kumbhakoni reached the Raj Bhavan shortly after a Bharatiya Janata Party delegation led by its state President Chandrakant Patil and ministers Girish Mahajan, Sudhir Mungantiwar and Ashish Shelar met the Governor to seek his advice on the same lines.

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  Wadettiwar to replace Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil as Maharashtra's new Leader of Opposition

  India | June 16, 2019 20:48 IST

  He will replace former Congressman and Leader of Opposition Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, who switched over to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and was inducted into the Devendra Fadnavis ministry this morning.

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  Maharashtra MLC election results : BJP, Shiv Sena win 2 seats each, NCP 1

  Elections | May 24, 2018 17:22 IST

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its estranged ally Shiv Sena have bagged two seats each. On the other hand, Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has got one seat