Former Chief Minister and Congress leader Ashok Chavan said the senior-most MLA should be made the temporary Speaker of the Maharashtra assembly for oath of MLAs and confidence vote .
“The senior-most member of the Assembly should be made the Pro-tem Speaker as per the precedence,” said Mr Chavan and accused “The BJP is trying to gain more time from the Supreme Court. You can understand the motive behind this. They are trying to poach MLAs from other parties,” he added.
“There is no question of NCP and BJP coming together. Ajit Pawar is misleading the people. He has been removed from the leadership (Leader of Legislative party) of NCP by Sharad Pawar and Jayant Patil is the new leader of this party,” Mr Chavan told .
“They don’t have numbers now. NCP is with the Shiv Sena alliance. Hence Ajit Pawar will be the Deputy Chief Minister of the state only for a few days,” added Mr Chavan.
Accusing Ajit Pawar of misleading people, Mr Chavan said: “Ajit Pawar is making statements (tweets) to mislead the people. They (MLAs) are safe at one places. It is better to have them all at one place, have better communication for the meeting. BJP is trying to break them. Hence our MLAs have said that they will be together at one place.”
Earlier today, Mr Chavan accused NCP leader Ajit Pawar of betraying his party’s MLAs by ”misusing” their letter of support.
“Many MLAs who were led astray have come back. The rest of them will also come back soon. Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress has the number. Our all 44 MLAs are safe at the right place. We need not worry about anything,” said Mr Chavan.
