No decision yet on who is NCP's house leader

November 26, 2019 10:21

Ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on Maharashtra government formation, Rajendra Bhagwat, the secretary of the Maharashtra Legislature says the Legislature Secretariat has received a letter claiming that Jayant Patil is the Legislative Party Leader for the NCP. "But, decision has to be taken by the Speaker. As of today, it has not been decided," he said.

"As Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf writes, "Whenever the assembly is convened, the senior-most MLA -- irrespective of which party he belongs to -- is appointed pro-tem speaker by the governor to administer the oath of office to the newly elected MLAs. The speaker's election is taken up thereafter.

This is what should have happened in Karnataka in 2018, but Governor Vajubbhai Vala ignored the guideline to appoint the senior-most legislator and chose BJP leader K G Bopaiah as the pro-tem speaker.

Going by this precedent, in Maharashtra, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari too can ignore Balasaheb Thorat of the Congress party, who is the senior-most MLA, and appoint a senior BJP leader as pro-tem speaker.

If that happens, the BJP's chances of winning the trust vote would go up manifold." Read the column here

The Supreme Court will pass its order on Tuesday morning over a joint petition filed by Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party against the decision of the Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to invite BJP to form the government in the state.

A bench of Justices N V Ramana, Ashok Bhushan, and Sanjiv Khanna on Monday heard the arguments put forth by counsels appearing for Governor, Maharashtra BJP and other parties and reserved its order.

The petitions were filed after BJP's Devendra Fadnavis took oath for the second consecutive term as the state Chief Minister, with NCP's Ajit Pawar as his Deputy Chief Minister on Saturday morning.

This came when deliberations among Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena on the government formation had reached the final stage.So what happens when the trust vote is convened?

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