'Coterie' surrounding Uddhav Thackeray responsible for current developments: rebel Shiv Sena MLA
India | July 05, 2022 16:08 ISTRebel Sena MLA Ramesh Bornare has claimed that Shivsainiks are happy with Eknath Shinde becoming the chief minister.
Rebel Sena MLA Ramesh Bornare has claimed that Shivsainiks are happy with Eknath Shinde becoming the chief minister.
Saamna also hit out at MLA Santosh Bangar who jumped ship from the Uddhav Thackeray side to the Eknath Shinde faction ahead of the trust vote and said, "The BJP-backed Shinde faction government has won the majority test in the assembly."
The Speaker's office confirmed that 16 MLAs will be issued notice for suspension. Gogawale had also issued a whip to the party MLAs to remain present in the Vidhan Sabha for the floor test.
Maharashtra Floor Test: Addressing a meeting of Sena district presidents at the Shiv Sena Bhawan, Uddhav Thackeray said it was an insult of the Constitution to run the Legislative Assembly in an arbitrary manner.
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.
Medha Somaiya in her complaint claimed Raut had made baseless and completely defamatory allegations against her and her husband.
Maharashtra Floor Test: Eknath Shinde thanked Deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis saying, "I thank him that he gave me a chance to work as a minister (in the last government)... and I could work on Samruddhi Mahamarg project."
Devendra Fadnavis said that the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance had received the mandate in 2019 but "we were deliberately taken away from the majority".
Raut's statement comes after Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar reinstated Shinde as the Shiv Sena legislature party leader, removing Ajay Chaudhary.
Sharad Pawar pointed out that the failure of the Eknath Shinde government will lead to several rebel MLAs returning to their original party.
Maharashtra Floor Test: The BJP-Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde camp) government held office on Thursday after Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis took as Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, a day after Uddhav Thackeray resigned as CM.
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.
On Friday, Uddhav Thackeray had said that had Union Home Minister Amit Shah kept his word of rotating the top post in the state in 2019, the BJP would have been steering the government now.
In a letter issued by the Shiv Sena, Thackeray said that Shinde has been indulging in "anti-party activities" and has voluntarily given up his membership.
The Shiv Sena accused the BJP of gaining power in the state through immoral means and asked why the party did not honour the pact of rotational chief minister in 2019 if Fadnavis had to take oath as the deputy chief minister.
A trust vote is also likely to be held during the two-day special assembly session.
The Bombay High Court in September 2019, verbally directed the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited and the state govt not to cut any trees in the Aarey forest area for the construction of a metro car shed, to which they agreed.
Maharashtra Political Crisis: While rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde was sworn in as the new chief minister of Maharashtra following the collapse of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government, Devendra Fadnavis, a former CM who had said he would remain outside, took oath as Shinde's deputy.
Maharashtra Crisis: The Sena leader Eknath Shinde rebelled against the Uddhav-led MVA government on the pretext of Hindutva, accusing Thackeray that the party under him deviated from its Hindutva ideology, the path shown by Bal Thackeray.
Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde was on Thursday sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister, while BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis took oath as deputy Chief Minister. Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari administered the oath of office to them at Raj Bhavan in south Mumbai shortly after 7.30 pm.
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