shiv sena: Wonder if Maharashtra speaker’s election held with proper procedure: Shiv Sena

Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant on Sunday questioned whether or not the right Constitutional process was adopted to elect the brand new Speaker of the Maharashtra Meeting and mentioned questions are raised relating to how the Shiv Sena insurgent faction is attempting to acceptable the unique get together.

Rahul Narvekar of the BJP was on Sunday elected Speaker on the primary day of its particular session with MLAs from the Eknath Shinde faction additionally voting in his favour.

Narvekar, who polled 164 votes, defeated Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena candidate Rajan Salvi, who received 107 votes.

“The dispute between the 39 insurgent MLAs of Shiv Sena and 16 legislators who stayed with the unique get together might be resolved solely within the Supreme Court docket. There are a number of questions of legitimacy the way in which the Eknath Shinde authorities got here to energy (in alliance with BJP) and carried out the Speaker’s election. Did the whole process happen throughout the framework of the Structure?” Sawant, additionally chief spokesperson of Shiv Sena, questioned.

He mentioned the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena had even issued a whip (asking all of the MLAs to vote in favour of Salvi) however the insurgent MLAs didn’t budge.

“Now we have complained towards them to the Speaker,” he mentioned.

Commenting on Shinde-led Sena MLAs’ stand, Sawant mentioned, “This can be the primary such case whereby the rebels are calling their faction as the unique get together.”

Shiv Sena factions led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray, who heads the get together, had issued separate whips to the get together legislators to vote in favour of their respective candidates through the state Meeting Speaker’s election.