Setback for MVA! Maha Governor approves withdrawal of MVA’s list of 12 MLC nominees
The development came soon after Chief Minister Eknath Shinde wrote to the Governor and withdrew the 2020 list. The new administration has informed the Raj Bhavan that it will send a fresh list of MLC nominations.
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Mumbai, Sep 09: Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Monday allowed the withdrawal of 12 Maharashtra Legislative Council nominations that had been sent by the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi government.
The development came soon after Chief Minister Eknath Shinde wrote to the Governor and withdrew the 2020 list. The new administration has informed the Raj Bhavan that it will send a fresh list of MLC nominations.
The previous government led by Uddhav Thackeray had nominated 12 people as MLCs two years ago, but the file was never approved by Governor Koshyari. People from the fields of arts, literature, social work etc are eligible to be nominated as MLCs.
The list included the names of actor Urmila Matondkar, Vijay Karanjkar, Nitin Bangude-Patil and Chandrakant Raghuvanshi from the Shiv Sena; farmers' leader Raju Shetti, former minister Eknath Khadse, Yashpal Bhinge and folk singer Anand Shinde from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP); and Rajni Patil, Sachin Sawant, Anniruddha Vankar and Muzaffar Hussain from the Congress.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led government, which comprised the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, collapsed in June this year after a revolt in the Sena led by MLA Eknath Shinde and 39 other legislators. Shinde was sworn in as the CM along with BJP's Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy on June 30.