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Now, Shiv Sena demands Fadnavis must quit

Mumbai

 The Shiv Sena has demanded that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis must quit immediately since he does not have support and is heading a ‘minority government’, here on Monday.

“We have the numbers… We have 165 legislators support with us. We can prove our majority right away, in any manner. We can take our legislators for a head-count by the governor, or voting on the floor of the assembly in any form, voice-vote or secret ballt,” asserted Shiv Sena Legislative Party leader Eknath Shinde.

He challenged the Bharatiya Janata Party, that if it has sufficient numbers, then it must prove its majority without resorting to any delay tactics.

“They are in a minority and we shall prove it in the legislature. If they are so confident of their support, then they must show the numbers to the people of the state,” Shinde told mediapersons here.

His statement came a day after the Nationalist Congress Party National Spokesperson Nawab Malik and other leaders demanded that Fadnavis should resign forthwith as he doesn’t have the numbers.

The Congress has also demanded a floor test on priority to prove the BJP’s claim of its majority strength.

Cementing their contentions, the three parties of the proposed Maha Vikas Aghadi submitted a joint letter with over 163 signatures of legislators, staking claim to form the government, this morning.

The letter in Marathi, which mentions it was submitted at 10.20 am, said: “On 23/11/2019, Devendra Fadnavis took the oath as Chief Minister. But, earlier, he had expressed inability to form the government as he did not have sufficient strength. However, he will be required to prove his majority even now.”

“Presently, he does not have sufficient number and will not be in a position to prove his majority… In such an eventuality, we are staking our claim to form the government,” the letter added. (IANS)

Vivek Bhavsar
Vivek Bhavsar
Vivek Bhavsar is the Editor-in-Chief. He is a senior journalist with more than 30 years of experience in political and investigative journalism. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheNews21. He has worked with leading English mainline dailies, including The Asian Age and Free Press Journal, and also carries the experience of strides in leading regional newspapers like Lokmat and Saamana. During his stints at reputed vernacular and English-language dailies, he has demonstrated his versatility in covering the gamut of beats from policy-making to urban ecology.  While reporting extensively on socio-political issues across Maharashtra, he found his métier in political journalism as an expert on government policy-making. He made his mark as an investigative journalist with exposes of government corruption and deft analyses of the decisions made in Mantralaya, as exemplified in his series of reports on the multi-crore petrochemical project at Nanar in the state’s Konkan region, which ultimately compelled the government to scrap the enterprise.

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