Lagatar24 Desk
Mumbai, June 26: Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde has summoned a meeting of MLAs camping with him at a hotel in Assam’s Guwahati on Sunday to decide the course of action going forward amid the political crisis in Maharashtra.
After Minister Eknath Shinde travelled to Surat and Guwahati with certain MLAs, claiming to have the support of 38 of the 55 Shiv Sena legislators, more than two-thirds of the party’s strength in the 288-member Maharashtra Legislative Assembly political unrest in Maharashtra was precipitated. It indicates that they won’t be barred from the state assembly if they decide to resign and start a new political party or join forces with another.
Narhari Zirwal, the deputy speaker of Maharashtra, has sent notices to the 16 Shiv Sena breakaway MLAs. The disqualification hearing must be attended by the MLAs on Monday in Mumbai.
Notably, Zirwal already gave his approval for Ajay Choudhary to succeed Shinde, the state cabinet member who disobeyed the Shiv Sena leadership, as leader of the Shiv Sena Legislature Party.
Zirwal also rejected the Shinde camp’s proposal to replace Sunil Prabhu as the chief whip of the legislature party with renegade Shiv Sena MLA Bharat Gogawale.
