‘It is Deputy CM’s accountability now’: Chhagan Bhujbal places onus of OBC reservation on Fadnavis

By ANI

MUMBAI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Chhagan Bhujbal on Sunday stated it’s the accountability of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his authorities now to get OBC reservations from the Supreme Court.

Amid the high-voltage political drama in Maharashtra, NCP held a gathering at Yashwantrao Chavan Centre auditorium on Sunday to debate additional plan of action.

Following the assembly, Bhujbal instructed reporters that the difficulty of OBC reservations was among the many agendas of the assembly.

“Discussions related to OBC reservations were done in the meeting. We have submitted reports. Now, it is Deputy Chief Minister and his government’s responsibility to get reservations from the Supreme Court,” stated the NCP chief.

Asked in regards to the Leader of the Opposition within the Maharashtra Assembly, Bhujbal stated, “We are yet to decide on the name of the Opposition’s leader in the state Assembly.”

Notably, a day after forming the brand new authorities in Maharashtra, State Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday held a gathering relating to the OBC reservation in Mantralaya in Mumbai.

Maharashtra Chief Secretary Manukumar Srivastava, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Pravin Darekar and Dr Sanjay Kute have been additionally current within the assembly at present.

In March this 12 months, the Supreme Court declined to just accept the Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission’s advice to revive 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC) within the upcoming native physique elections.

The then Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities in Maharashtra determined to discover authorized choices for the restoration of Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation in native our bodies’ polls.The difficulty was raked up by the BJP within the Maharashtra Assembly.

The new Maharashtra authorities, which got here to energy after Shiv Sena MLA Eknath Shinde’s 10-day rise up introduced the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) authorities, will face the ground check on Monday, the second day of the particular session of the state Legislative Assembly.

Earlier on Sunday night, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde alongside together with his faction of Shiv Sena MLAs held a gathering with Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, BJP MLAs, and different get together leaders at a lodge in Mumbai to chalk out a technique for the ground check.

Fadnavis claimed that the Shinde authorities will show its majority with 166 votes.

At current, the BJP has 106 MLAs within the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly and Shinde is main 39 insurgent Shiv Sena legislators and a few Independents. After the loss of life of a Shiv Sena MLA lately, the present energy of the Assembly is lowered to 287, thus the bulk mark is 144.

Shinde-led camp and the BJP scored an enormous win on Sunday as BJP’s Rahul Narwekar was elected because the Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly defeating Shiv Sena candidate Rajan Salvi.

Interestingly, amid the continued battle between two Shiv Sena factions led by Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray, either side issued separate whips to the get together MLAs to vote in favour of their respective candidates throughout the speaker’s election on Sunday and later accused one another of violating them.

Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant, who’s within the Uddhav Thackeray camp, stated that 39 get together MLAs didn’t obey their whip including that they’ve sought their disqualification from the state Assembly.

However, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar has taken on report the letter despatched by Bharat Gogawale, who’s Chief Whip of the Eknath Shinde-led faction. Gogawale stated that 16 MLAs Shiv Sena violated the whip.

Narwekar acquired a complete of 164 votes in help and 107 went to the

Shiv Sena candidate’s account. During the Speaker elections, 12 members have been absent and three legislators abstained from the voting.

In the most recent growth, the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Sena has additionally began the authorized course of to disqualify 16 MLAs, together with Shinde.