Amid Uddhav Thackeray vs Eknath Shinde in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court has asked Maharashtra Speaker Rahul Narwekar to defer disqualification petitions pending against both the Eknath Shinde-faction and the Uddhav Thackeray-camp.
Ahead of the crucial hearings, the court was told that Maharashtra’s newly-elected assembly speaker and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rahul Narwekar was empowered in law to decide the disqualification petitions pending against state chief minister Eknath Shinde and other dissident MLAs of Shiv Sena. The secretary of the assembly said that the disqualification proceedings shall now be undertaken by the speaker and not the deputy speaker.
Before the highly anticipated hearings, Shinde had launched an attack on Uddhav on Sunday. “Some people think they are born to rule. I am not the one to have born with a golden spoon. They should have felt proud that a common man has assumed the chair. They are filing petitions in the night and early morning. But even the court knows. We have the majority numbers to rule. We haven’t done anything illegal,” he said in Pandharpur, without naming his predecessor.
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