The Supreme Court on Tuesday said clearly that the floor test on formation of Maharashtra government will be held on November 27, Wednesday. The court has said that a pro-tem Speaker will hold the floor test. The voting should not be secret, and has to be videographed.
Maharashtra government formation has gone into an unprecedented crisis, as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the chief minister at 8 am on Saturday even as the Nationalist Congress Party along with the Congress and the Shiv Sena were at the final stages of forming the government.
The NCP’s Ajit Pawar was sworn-in as deputy CM, following which the party chief Sharad Pawar distanced himself and said that it had happened without his consent.
In the 288-member Assembly, the BJP had won 105 seats, Shiv Sena 56, NCP 54 and Congress 44. This made no single party eligible to form the government unless they went into an alliance. The Shiv Sena wanted a “50:50” formula, but the BJP did not agree with it. Eventually, the Sena-Congress-NCP had agreed to come together to form the government.
But in a dramatic turn of events, the BJP and Ajit Pawar took oath on Saturday morning – leading the matter to the apex court.
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