Devendra Fadnavis to brief the media at 3:30 pm

November 26, 2019 14:27

1 Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis to address the media at 3:30 pm.

2 A meeting was held at the Prime Minister's chamber at the Parliament today. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national working president JP Nadda were present at the meeting.

4 Uddhav Thackeray to be leader of Mahavikas Aghadi.

5 The Congress and NCP have called for the the appointment of the senior-most lawmaker in the Maharashtra Assembly -- Congress MLA Balasaheb Thorat as pro-tem speaker, saying precedents and conventions should be followed.

"It has happened in nine cases. If you remember in Karnataka, first K G Bopaiah ji was made speaker, but then he was changed as he was not senior-most. So automatically, it is a tradition that the senior-most (legislator) is made pro-tem speaker. We go by conventions and traditions," Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi told reporters.

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