Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Maharashtra tussle reaches Supreme Court today. The apex court is hearing the Shiv Sena plea to challange the Guvernor order of floor test tomorrow. Earlier in the day governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has asked the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government to take a floor test on Thursday, although the Sena approached the Supreme Court challenging the direction. The letter was issued by Koshyari to Maharashtra Legislature’s Principal Secretary Rajendra Bhagwat on Tuesday night, after a group of BJP leaders, including former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, met him at the Raj Bhavan and urged him to direct the government to prove its majority in the wake of the Sena MLAs’ rebellion. According to the reports, rebel Shiv Sena MLAs led by Eknath Shinde have also left the Guwahati hotel to Goa.
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MVA’s Last Cabinet meeting?
CM Uddhav Thackeray thanked all the ministers and bureaucrats for their co-operation for the last 2.5 years. Thackeray also said that his own people have brought upon this situation on him.
SC hearing on Maha floor test
Pendency of disqualification proceedings before speaker is no ground to delay floor test: Sr Adv NK Kaul for Eknath Shinde faction
Maharashtra Cabinet approves renaming of Aurangabad to Sambhaji Nagar
Maharashtra state cabinet approves the renaming of Aurangabad to Sambhaji Nagar and Osmanabad to Dharashiv. Navi Mumbai Airport’s name will be changed to DB Patil International Airport.
SC hearing Update
- While the matter is waiting for adjudication before the Supreme Court, how can the Governor who just recovered from COVID, after a meeting with the Leader of Opposition, ask for a Floor Test the next day?
- The people who have changed sides and defected cannot represent the will of the people. Can’t the Governor trust the Court to not call a Floor Test tomorrow? Will heavens fall if there is no Floor Test tomorrow?
We will reach Mumbai tomorrow to participate in the trust vote: Eknath Shinde
We will reach Mumbai tomorrow and participate in the Trust Vote. After that, a meeting of the Legislative Party will be held, following this the further course of action will be decided: Eknath Shinde, at Guwahati airport
Abhishek Manu Singhvi complains against ‘supersonic’ speed of governor’s floor test order
- Sunil Prabhu’s lawyer tells Supreme Court that letter which tells us about the Floor Test says that on June 28th Oppn leader met Governor & today morning we received intimation about Floor Test tomorrow. Two NCP members are down with COVID & one Congress MLA is out of the country
- It’s akin to saying Election Commission holding election saying that the electorate will include dead people or people who have moved out. If the Floor Test is done without determining if A,B,C,D are disqualified, pool in which Floor Test will be held, will change
Supreme Court starts hearing plea against floor test
Supreme Court starts hearing plea filed by Shiv Sena chief whip Sunil Prabhu challenging Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s direction to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to prove his majority support on the floor of the House on June 30th.
Shinde camp head to Goa
- Taking a chartered flight from SpiceJet, reports NDTV
Rebel MLAs leave from Radisson Blu hotel in Guwahati
#WATCH | Assam: Rebel Maharashtra MLAs leave from Radisson Blu hotel in Guwahati. https://t.co/KbxYgW4sax
— ANI (@ANI) 1656502000000
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Update: Shiv Sena Chief Whip’s Plea Against Floor Test
Supreme Court to hear at 5 PM today
Ahead of Maharashtra floor test, BJP demands protection for rebel MLAs
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Update: BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis spoke with MNS chief Raj Thackeray over the phone, asking for help in Floor Test scheduled for tomorrow.
Thackeray agreed, he said that the party will vote. MNS has one MLA in the Maharashtra Assembly.
Cabinet meeting of a minority government of the state is utterly wrong. It’s akin to a political sin: BJP leader Sudhir Mungantiwar on MVA govt’s cabinet meeting to be held today
With the governor calling for a floor test on June 30, the Uddhav Thackeray led government has called for a Cabinet meeting at 5 pm today.
This is the second cabinet in the last 24 hours.
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Update : Mungantiwar- All that the members have to do is raise their hands, (to prove your majority) you are not sholay’s Thakur that you cant raise your hands.
On Uddhav thackeray holding a cabinet meeting today at 5pm- They are in a minority govt, this is like a rentee taking away all the switches and fixtures in the home while vacating it
Dy Speaker has assured full security: BJP leaders
BJP leaders Pravin Darekar and Sudhir Mungantiwar meeting Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal. Mungantiwar later says: “Why are you (Uddhav camp) criticizing the Governor? Why should a minority government be forced on the state. The Deputy Speaker has assured us there would be no attack on the democratic process, and he has assured full security during voting process.
We have the legal right to vote: Eknath Shinde
Eknath Shinde after taking blessings at Kamakhya Devi temple- ” As you can see none of the MLAs are in captivity, everyone is roaming freely, taking blessings, tomorrow we would be going to Mumbai for the trust vote. We are two thirds of the party and we have 50 MLAs. Under a democractic system, we have the legal right to vote. We would also go to take blessings at Dadar where late Balasaheb Thackeray has been laid to rest.”
Jailed NCP MLAs file plea to vote in floor test tomorrow
- Jailed NCP MLAs Nawab Malik and Anil Deshmukh moved the SC seeking permission to participate in the floor test.
- The two MLAs have been booked for offences under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and are in jail.
- They are moving an intervention application praying they be heard in the evening after the plea of Shiv Sena challenging the Governor’s decision
- A vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala said it would take up their application at 5.30 pm.
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Governor not bound by SC order: Mumbai BJP leader
The governor is not a respondent to the disqualification matter before the Supreme Court. Hence no order of Supreme court is binding on him.The governor being the Constitutional head is well within his rights to call for floor test, when MLAs have shown no confidence in the Govt: claims BJP’s Vivekanand Gupta.
BJP leaders accompanying rebel MLAs
Assam Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pijush Hazarika and other state BJP leaders are accompanying Eknath Shinde and other rebel Maharashtra MLAs.
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Rebel Sena MLAs to contribute Rs 51 lakh to Assam flood relief
Rebel Shiv Sena MLAs from Maharashtra have contributed Rs 51 lakh for the flood relief wok in Assam. There was criticism that the Sena dissidents were staying at a luxury hotel in Guwahati even as parts of Assam were grappling with severe floods.
BJP meeting today afternoon
Former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has called a meeting of BJP leaders at his residence in Mumbai this afternoon.
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: NCP has asked all its MLAs to reach Mumbai by tonight
SC agrees to take up Maharashtra government’s petition challenging floor test. Matter to be taken up today by evening. To be taken up at 5 pm
SC agrees to take up Maharashtra government’s petition challenging floor test. The matter is to be taken up today by 5 pm.
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Rebel Shiv Sena MLAs to leave Assam for Goa
The rebel Shiv Sena MLAs are likely to leave for Goa this afternoon, PTI reports. This is ahead of the floor test in the Maharashtra assembly tomorrow. SpiceJet aircraft has been hired and the flight is expected to leave Guwahati’s Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport for Goa’s Dabolim airport at around 3 pm, sources privy to the development told PTI.
Rebels to shift out of Guwahati
Dissident Shiv Sena MLAs camping in Guwahati to fly to a neighbouring state of Maharashtra later Wednesday: Official sources told PTI.
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Maharashtra govt moves SC
Maharashtra government moves SC challenging floor test tomorrow. Likely to be taken up today.
After governor’s order, NCP leaders scramble
Ahead of the floor test tomorrow, Maharashtra Ministers and NCP leaders Dilip Walse Patil and Jayant Patil, arrive at the residence of party chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai ( ANI)
We will move SC: Sanjay Raut
We will go to the Supreme Court (against the Maharashtra Governor’s decision to call for a floor test). This is an unlawful activity as the matter of disqualification of our 16 MLAs is pending in the Supreme Court. The Governor was waiting for this moment only: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut.
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: “A special session of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha (legislative Assembly) shall be summoned on June 30 (Thursday) at 11 am with the only agenda of a trust vote against the chief minister, and the proceedings shall be concluded in any case by 5 pm.
– Governor’s letter
I’m here ( Kamakhya temple) to pray for the peace & happiness of Maharashtra. Will go to Mumbai tomorrow for the floor test and follow all the process
– Eknath Shinde, rebel leader
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Time has run out: Kesarkar
Time has run out for any rapproachment, says Deepak Kesarkar, spokesperson of Eknath Shinde camp
Governor’s letter on trust vote
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has written to state Assembly secretary to convene a special session of… https://t.co/ClVDnzHmPp
— ANI (@ANI) 1656473986000
Maharashtra Political Crisis LIVE Updates: Floor test at 11 am tomorrow: ANI
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has written to state Assembly secretary to convene a special session of the State Assembly on June 30, with the only agenda of a trust vote against CM Uddhav Thackeray ( ANI)
Returning to Mumbai on Thursday: Shinde
We will go to Mumbai on Thursday to complete the formalities: Eknath Shinde in Guwahati.
Eknath Shinde at Kamakhya temple
Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde along with four other Maharashtra MLAs reach Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati. ( ANI)
Introspect why so many MLAs with Shinde: Rebel MLA to Sena leadership
Ramesh Bornare, rebel Shiv Sena MLA from Vaijapur said he stood firmly with Eknath Shinde. “I have taken this decision for the development of my constituency. I don’t intend to stay MLA for long, but want that people remember me for the development work I do in my tenure. The Shiv Sena should introspect why such a large number of MLAs are now with Shinde,” he said.
More than half of rebels came from NCP: Raut on Shinde’s Hindutva claim
Sanjay Raut, at a public meeting, slammed the claim of rebel M LAs that their fight was for protecting the party’s Hindutva moorings. He pointed out more than half of them were earlier with the NCP. “Twenty-two of them have come from the Nationalist Congress Party. What Hindutva they are talking about?” he said.
NCP banners flaying rebels MLAs as ‘traitors’
Banners labelling dissident Shiv Sena MLAs as “traitors” were hung in various places in Guwahati by workers of the Nationalist Congress Party. The banners, in Hindi, featured a scene from the film ‘Baahubali’: Katappa betraying and killing Amarendra Baahubali by stabbing him with a sword from behind.
Our information is that the SC has ordered status quo. Further, the court orally declined to pass any order in connection with the no- confidence motion. So it is expected that Raj Bhavan will not ask the CM to prove his majority on the floor of the House. If directions are issued for a floor test, then Sena will approach SC.
– Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant
Sena to move SC if floor test ordered
Shiv Sena is preparing to move the Supreme Court if governor BS Koshiyari asks CM Uddhav Thackeray to take a floor test. Sena leaders said the SC had earlier declined to pass orders on a not holding a floor test till July 12 – the date given for rebels to explain why they shouldn’t be disqualified – but had allowed the Sena to approach if it is ordered.
BJP spending crores to topple MVA govt: Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged that the BJP was spending crores of rupees to topple the Shiv Sena-led government in Maharashtra. “The BJP is spending crores of rupees to topple the government in Maharashtra. Where are they getting so much money to topple an elected government of a state? Where is our country’s democracy heading to? What about out federal structure? Has the BJP decided to bulldoze everything in this country,” Banerjee was quoted as saying.
If you return and face me, some way could be found. As the party president and family head, I still care for you.
– CM Uddhav Thackeray yesterday
