Defection show-cause notices are sent to Uddhav and Shinde camp MLAs: Report

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• Jul 10, 2022 | Kabir Chakraborty

The lawmakers have been given seven days to provide an explanation of their position.

Digital Desk: 53 of the 55 Shiv Sena
legislators in Maharashtra have received show-cause notices, including 39
members of the Eknath Shinde faction and 14 members of the Uddhav Thackeray
faction. According to the norms for Members of the Maharashtra Legislative
Assembly, the notices for disqualification due to defection have been given by
the assembly secretary.

MLAs from both sides have reportedly
got the notices, according to a PTI report. In an effort to get the legislators
from both camps disqualified, the camps have accused one another of disobeying
the party line during the July 3 and 4 trust vote and the election for Assembly
speaker, respectively.

The lawmakers have been given seven
days to provide an explanation of their position.

The 288-member Assembly, which now has
287 members owing to the death of a Sena lawmaker, contains 55 MLAs from the
Sena. 99 MLAs opposed the motion of confidence, while 164 MLAs voted in favour
of it during the trust vote. Shinde's faction sent a notice to 14 lawmakers
from the Uddhav Thackeray camp for disobeying a whip issued by Sena whip and
Shinde supporter Bharat Gogawale after easily winning the trust vote in the
Assembly on July 4. Aaditya Thackeray, the son of former chief minister Uddhav
Thackeray, was not included in the list, nevertheless.

Santosh Bangar, one of the 14 MLAs
from the Thackeray camp, defected to the Shinde camp on July 4, the day before
the floor test of Shinde's administration.

Sunil Prabhu was expelled from the
Thackeray camp a day before the floor test when Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar
recognised Gogawale as the Shiv Sena's top whip.

Speaker of the
Maharashtra Assembly Narvekar of the BJP was chosen on July 3. In contrast to
Rajan Salvi of the Shiv Sena, who received 107 votes, he received 164 votes.