For the first time in six a long time, Maharashtra will not have a Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the state meeting.
Shiv Sena UBT Chief Uddhav Thackeray and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi
For the first time in six a long time, Maharashtra will not have a Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the state meeting as a result of insufficient quantity of MLAs in the opposition bloc.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Mahayuti registered a landslide victory in the meeting election. With the BJP successful 132, Shiv Sena 57 and the NCP-Ajit Pawar 41 seats, the overall tally of the Mahayuti alliance stood at 233 in the 288-member legislative meeting, together with the seat share of different allies.
The complete seat depend of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi stood at merely 49 – with the Congress securing 16, NCP has 10, and Shiv Sena has 21 seats, together with the seat share of different allies.
As per guidelines, an opposition occasion ought to have 10% of the overall power of the meeting, which the MVA lacks in the present state of affairs.
In the 288-member legislative meeting, at the very least one opposition occasion ought to have gained 10% of the overall power, i.e., 28, to nominate the Leader of Opposition (LoP).
Maharashtra BJP Chief lashes out at opposition
Given that there will be no LoP in the state meeting, Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule lashed out at Congress, saying that Maharashtra not having a Leader of Opposition (LoP) was a outcome of “wrong deeds” dedicated by Congress and the opposition events.
“Maharashtra will not have a leader of the opposition (LoP) this time. This is the result of the wrong deeds of Congress and the opposition. They spread fake narratives in Lok Sabha Elections and duped voters at that time. So when people came to know about this in assembly polls, voters kicked them out as they did in Haryana,” he mentioned, as reported by information company ANI.
