As the rift within the Shiv Sena entered its second week, Maharashtra Chief Minister and party chief, Uddhav Thackeray on Monday reallocated portfolios held by rebel MLAs, including Eknath Shinde and Uday Samant.
Shinde was the cabinet minister for urban development and public works, Samant held the high and technical education Portfolio in the Maharashtra government led by CM Thackeray.
Shiv Sena now has four cabinet ministers, including CM Uddhav Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray, Anil Parab and Subhash Desai. Barring Aaditya Thackeray, the rest three are MLCs.
In the Shiv Sena-led tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, the Uddhav Thackeray-led party had 10 cabinet-level ministers and four ministers of state (MoS) before the rebellion, two of whom were from the Shiv Sena quota. The four MoS have joined the rebel camp in Guwahati.
The development comes at a time when the political turmoil in Maharashtra reached the Supreme Court when the Shinde camp approached the Deputy Speaker against the disqualification notices issued to him and 15 other rebel MLAs.
Shinde on Sunday moved the apex court with a petition, terming the deputy speaker’s action as “illegal and unconstitutional” and seeking a stay on it. A vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala on Monday began hearing Shinde’s plea seeking a direction to the deputy chairman not to take any action on the disqualification petition against him.
Shinde and a large number of MLAs rebelled against the leadership of Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on June 21 and are currently in Guwahati, Assam. Their main demand is that the Shiv Sena withdraw from the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, which also includes the Congress and the NCP.
Shinde, in his petition, said that he is bound to enforce the jurisdiction of this court under Article 32 of the Constitution, which is “arbitrary and illegal” under the provisions of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (Disqualification on grounds of defection) Rules, 1986. Challenging practice. Deputy Speaker which is a complete violation of Articles 14 and 19(1)(g) of the Constitution.
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