New Delhi: Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar has mentioned he’s but to establish whether or not the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is part of the Shiv Sena-BJP authorities or continues to be within the Opposition. On Sunday, senior NCP chief Ajit Pawar led a vertical break up within the celebration to develop into deputy chief minister within the one-year-old Shiv Sena-BJP authorities, surprising his uncle Sharad Pawar, who based the outfit 24 years in the past after quitting the Congress.
Besides Ajit Pawar, eight different NCP MLAs, together with Chhagan Bhujbal and Hasan Mushrif, have been sworn in as ministers within the Shinde cupboard. Speaking to reporters right here on Monday, Narwekar mentioned his workplace has not but acquired any petition mentioning a few break up within the celebration.
“I am yet to ascertain whether the NCP is a part of the state government or is still in the Opposition bloc. I will go through the details available before me and take a call on it,” he mentioned. Ajit Pawar was the Leader of Opposition within the Assembly earlier than he took oath as deputy CM.
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Narwekar mentioned, I’ve acquired just one petition from NCP MLA Jayant Patil in search of disqualification of 9 MLAs (Ajit Pawar and eight others who took oath as ministers together with him). There is not any written communication from some other chief of the NCP.” “I’ve not acquired any petition mentioning a few break up within the celebration,” he said.
Asked what number of NCP MLAs have expressed their assist to Ajit Pawar, Narwekar mentioned, “I do not have any information on it because there is no written communication from his side. The party-wise strength in the Legislative Assembly still remains unchanged.” The Sharad Pawar-led celebration has 53 MLAs within the 288-member Assembly.
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The Speaker mentioned his workplace has acquired a number of representations from legislators associated to latest developments within the NCP. “We will look into them, study their legality and then only take a decision,” he mentioned with out elaborating on the character of representations acquired by his workplace.
