First-time BJP legislator Rahul Narwekar used to be elected because the Maharashtra Meeting Speaker on Sunday. Narwekar got 164 votes within the Meeting.
He used to be fielded in opposition to Sena MLA and Uddhav Thackeray loyalist Rajan Salvi, who used to be the candidate of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress mix for the Speaker’s election.
A detailed breakdown of the numbers unearths that the Opposition didn’t stand of challenge in opposition to the BJP-Shinde alliance. This implies that even when all 39 rebellion Sena MLAs dangle been disqualified, the Opposition would dangle misplaced regardless.
The Maharashtra Meeting has an total of 288 members. There’s a vacancy ensuing from the loss of life of Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke last month. This implies the tipping scale used to be at 144.
Narwekar obtained by 164 votes on Sunday. Nonetheless, even when all 39 rebellion Sena MLAs had been disqualified from vote casting, the numbers would peaceable dangle stood at 125 for the BJP-Shinde alliance.
The Samajwadi Event (SP) abstained from vote casting in opposition to BJP candidate Narwekar. Both its MLAs, Abu Azmi and Raees Shaikh kept sitting in all places in the head count. Amongst the MLAs who dangle been absent in all places in the election for the Speaker, seven are from the NCP, two are from the BJP, one Congress MLA and one AIMIM MLA.
Within the 288-member Condominium, 10 lawmakers from smaller events and independents, as effectively as 106 BJP MLAs, red meat up Eknath Shinde. Shiv Sena has 55 seats, NCP has 53, Congress has 44, BJP has 106, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi has 3, Samajwadi has 2, AIMIM has 2, Prahar Janshakti has 1, CPI (M) has 1, PWP has 1, Swambhimani Paksha has 1, Rashtriya Samaj Paksha h