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Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde moves resolution to form 'Maha Vikas Aghadi', the alliance of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress. NCP's Nawab Malik & Congress' Nitin Raut second it. #Maharashtra https://t.co/RKcB4077W9
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Mumbai: Ahead of the joint meeting of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, MLAs of the three parties arrive at Trident Hotel. pic.twitter.com/K6uNrQJpxu
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Maharashtra: BJP MLA Kalidas Kolambkar takes oath as Protem Speaker, at Raj Bhawan in Mumbai. Oath administered by Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari pic.twitter.com/mSYjRXgmQk
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Fadnavis has been like a little schoolboy and not like a mature politician.Sujata Anandan, Political Analyst
Agreed political and economic analyst Shankkar Aiyar. He said that BJP didn’t completely recognise that Pawar was the man who stitched together a coalition of 14 parties in 1978.
“The BJP exaggerated its own strength and discount Sharad Pawar’s capabilities. And they are paying for it. They have egg on their faces now,” Aiyar said.
Ahead of floor test, Ajit Pawar tenders resignation from Deputy CM post
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi held also held a meeting with BJP chief Amit Shah, who is also the Union home minister, and the party's working president JP Nadda after the Supreme Court ordered a floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly on Wednesday.
Though there was no official word on what transpired in the meeting, the leaders are believed to have deliberated on the Maharashtra situation, according to PTI.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is now scheduled to address the media at 3:30 p.m. today, according to ANI.
At the same time, all newly elected BJP MLAs in the state have been asked to reach Mumbai to attend a meeting to be addressed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on today evening, a party leader told PTI
Along with its own 105 MLAs, the BJP has the support of "14 other legislators" from various smaller parties and Independents, the leader claimed.
The BJP on Tuesday said the floor test in Maharashtra assembly on Wednesday will establish the position of different parties in its entirety.
Its national spokesperson Nalin Kohli also rejected the contention that the Supreme Court order on the floor test on Wednesday is a "setback" to the BJP, asserting that "no judicial pronouncement on issues of the Constitution can be a setback to any political party".
Judicial orders only strengthen the Constitution, he added.
"Is not an irony and political hypocrisy when on the one hand political parties speak about constitutional values and on the other hand express an intention to boycott parliament on the occasion of Constitutional Day," he said, attacking the Congress and other BJP rivals for boycotting the joint sitting of Parliament which is being held to mark 70 years of the adoption of the Constitution.
Kohli said the Supreme Court has to be complied with and said it was in line with the Bommai judgment that a floor test was the only conclusive test to prove majority in the House.
He also said that once the floor test is conducted it will "establish the complete position" in its entirety.
To a question if the order was a setback to the BJP, he said, "No judicial pronouncement on issues of the constitution can be a setback to any political party because such pronouncements ensure strengthening of constitutional provisions and add to the further evolution of democracy."
Source: PTI
Congress party leader Prithviraj Chavan is confident of the three-party alliance's (NCP-Congress-Shiv Sena) majority in Maharashtra assembly tomorrow where the reality of BJP's claim will be exposed, he added.
- Supreme Court has ordered swearing in of the MLAs from 11 a.m. tomorrow
- Pro tem speaker will conduct the floor test at 5 p.m. tomorrow
- This will be a court-supervised floor test
The three-judge Supreme Court bench - comprising of Justice NV Ramana, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice Sanjiv Khanna - has assembled.
Justice Ramana will read the order.
Arguments In Court
Appearing for the Shiv Sena, senior advocate Kapil Sibal said the combine has affidavits from 154 Maharashtra MLAs and the BJP should be asked to prove its majority within 24 hours if it has the numbers.
The Centre told a bench comprising Justices NV Ramana, Ashok Bhushan and Sanjiv Khanna that the governor had in absolute discretion invited the largest party to form government on Nov. 23. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told the top court the Maharashtra governor is not supposed to conduct a roving and fishing inquiry to ascertain which party has the numbers to form government.
Senior advocate Maninder Singh, appearing for Ajit Pawar, told the bench that the governor rightly invited Fadnavis to form government.
Opening his arguments, Sibal, appearing for the Shiv Sena, referred to Uddhav Thackeray being declared the next Maharashtra chief minister at a press conference of the three parties. "Where was national emergency to revoke President's rule at 5.27 a.m. and CM being administered oath at 8 am next morning," Sibal asked. Sibal referred to the alleged haste by which President's rule was revoked and a new government was formed in Maharashtra and said it has never been done in history. "(Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress) Combine has affidavits of 154 Maharashtra MLAs supporting it. If the BJP has numbers, then they should be asked to prove majority within 24 hours," Sibal said.
Senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for the NCP and the Congress, termed it a "fraud of the worst kind" and asked whether a single NCP MLA told Ajit Pawar that he supported him to go with the BJP.
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