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Sujit Singh Thakur is likely to be new Leader of Opposition in Legislative Council

Ahead of the winter session of the state legislature scheduled to begin from December 16 at Nagpur, the opposition Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is likely to nominate Sujit Singh Thakur as Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Legislative Council. State BJP president Chandrakant Patil would be reappointed to the post.

The BJP has to propose the name of the LoP in the Council House on the first day of the winter session. After the state assembly election results on October 24, the BJP has seen its position change from Treasury bench to opposition. In Upper House, the BJP has 22 members and four independent supporting members.

The party will endorse name of Sujit Singh Thakur, party’s general secretary for the post of LoP. However, Vinayak Mete, president of Shiv Sangram Party and member of upper House has staked claim on the post of LoP. Mete has asserted that being an ally of BJP, he should get the chance.

As of today, in Upper House, the Shiv Sena has 12 members and two independent supporting members, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has 14 members and two independent supporting member whereas Congress has 13 members and one independent member supporting it.

Meanwhile, as the tenure of Chandrakant Patil as state president is about to end soon, he would be re-elected for the second successive term. Patil is known to belong to the Amit Shah camp and he is most likely to get second term instead of the party replacing him. 

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Vivek Bhavsar
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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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