NCP chief and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday advised reporters that if Eknath Shinde is claiming to be the ‘real’ Shiv Sena, then the Maha Vikas Aghadi have already got the bulk to run the Maharashtra authorities. In what could be seen as a measure to side-step Thackeray’s authority, Pawar advised reporters, “They (Eknath Shinde faction) say that they are Shiv Sena. So Shiv Sena+NCP+Congress together, we have a majority.”
Asserting that the MVA authorities has the bulk, Pawar advised reporters, “We are in power and have the majority. We are making decisions as a government does. Wouldn’t you have done the same if you were in power and had majority?”
On Friday, state minister Shinde, who’s tenting with different ‘rebel’ MLAs at an opulent resort in Assam’s Guwahati, claimed the assist of at the least 50 legislators, together with 40 MLAs from the Shiv Sena camp. Shinde has claimed that the insurgent camp is the “actual Shiv Sena”, after claiming that the get together’s alliance with Congress and NCP was an “unnatural” one.
Shinde, now, has the assist of two-third members of the get together, the benchmark required to keep away from the anti-defection legislation. In the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly, Shiv Sena, initially, had 55 MLAs. On Friday, in one other setback to the MVA alliance, 4 MLAs, together with three from Shiv Sena, have been set to hitch the ‘rebel’ camp.
Meanwhile, the ‘Uddhav’ camp has written to Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal, searching for to disqualify 16 of the ‘rebel’ MLAs. In retaliation, two Independent MLAs have sought the disqualification of Zirwal, who’s from the NCP. While citing a Supreme Court judgement on this matter, the legislators have requested Zirwal to not be the deciding authority on the disqualification of the 16 ‘rebel’ legislators.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”