NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday mentioned the three constituents of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) have determined that the subsequent speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Meeting can be from the Congress social gathering.
The submit fell vacant after Congress MLA Nana Patole resigned in February this 12 months to take over because the social gathering’s Maharashtra unit president.
Talking to reporters in Baramati metropolis in Pune district, Pawar mentioned, “The three events (Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress) have determined that the brand new Speaker can be from the Congress social gathering solely. All of us will help regardless of the social gathering (Congress) decides in regards to the speaker (candidate)”.
Not too long ago, Maharashtra governor B S Koshyari had written to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to take a name on filling the submit of the speaker. Nonetheless, the election of Speaker can’t be held throughout the lately concluded two-day monsoon session of the state legislature.
Replying to a query on the suspension of 12 MLAs of the BJP throughout the monsoon session for alleged misbehaviour, Pawar mentioned, “They have been suspended primarily based on what occurred within the Meeting. Nothing a lot to dig into it…It’s achieved”. The 12 MLAs have been suspended for one 12 months for allegedly misbehaving with the presiding officer within the chamber of the Meeting Speaker on July 5. Chief of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis had alleged the transfer was aimed toward lowering the variety of BJP MLAs within the Decrease Home.
In the meantime, BJP chief Pravin Darekar on Sunday mentioned the saffron social gathering will take a name on whether or not to discipline a candidate for the election of the Maharashtra Meeting speaker or to chalk out one other technique at an applicable time.
Darekar additionally mentioned that the induction of BJP leaders Narayan Rane and Kapil Patil into the Union cupboard will show useful particularly for the Konkan area of Maharashtra. Each Rane, a Rajya Sabha MP, and Patil, who represents the Bhiwandi Lok Sabha constituency, hail from the Konkan area. “Rane is inducted into the cupboard not as a result of he’s a Shiv Sena-baiter however for the event of the state,” he mentioned, including the BJP isn’t a “narrow-minded” social gathering.
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