NEW DELHI: The three-day specific session of the Maharashtra Assembly began on Saturday with the swearing-in of newly elected MLAs, and the election of a model new Speaker is scheduled as part of agenda.
This session, which items the stage for the upcoming winter session in Nagpur from December 16 to 21, targets to perform a platform to set the tone for legislative agenda for the newly formed assembly in Maharashtra.
Senior BJP MLA Kalidas Sulochana Kolambkar was sworn in as a result of the pro-tem Speaker of the assembly by Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan on Friday, a day ahead of the actual session.
Ahead of the state assembly’s specific session, newly elected MLAs spoke to the media, specializing of their dedication to the occasion of their constituencies and advancing key initiatives.
Shiv Sena chief Uday Samant commented on the persevering with course of, saying, “15 days prior to now, the 288 MLAs who’ve been elected inside the assembly elections took their oath, and at current we’re holding the oath-taking ceremony proper right here. The election of the Speaker will occur shortly. All three leaders will sit and resolve when the cabinet will doubtless be expanded.”
Samant moreover addressed portfolio allocations, together with, “Who’s to be made a minister or not is unquestionably the choice of the chief minister. CM will sit with every DCMs and determine on that. Who has acknowledged that we want the home ministry? CM and DCMs will resolve on the portfolios.”
The Maharashtra legislative assembly is the lower house of the state’s bicameral legislature, with 288 members instantly elected from single-seat constituencies.
Earlier this week, Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as Maharashtra’s chief minister at a grand ceremony in Mumbai’s Azad Maidan, joined by Ajit Pawar of NCP and Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde as deputy chief ministers, inside the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Throughout the 2024 Maharashtra assembly polls, the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance secured a decisive victory, profitable 235 seats. The BJP emerged as a result of the single-largest social gathering with 132 seats, whereas Shiv Sena gained 57 and NCP secured 41 seats. The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance confronted a critical setback, with Congress profitable merely 16 seats, Shiv Sena (UBT) securing 20, and the NCP (Sharad Pawar faction) claiming solely 10 seats.
