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Supreme Court of India, in its judgement dated 10 July 2013 while disposing the Lily Thomas v. Union of India case (along with Lok Prahari v. Union of India), [1] ruled that any Member of Parliament (MP), Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) or Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) who is convicted of a crime and given a minimum of two years' imprisonment, loses membership of the House ...
In May 2023, Narwekar was tasked by the Supreme Court of India with deciding on the disqualification petitions of 34 MLAs from the two factions of Shiv Sena that emerged after the party split in 2022. [20]
On 20 June 2022, BJP won all 5 seats it contested in the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections reportedly due to cross voting by several Shiv Sena members. [15] Immediately after the MLC election results, 11 MLAs of the Shiv Sena, led by senior Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, moved to a Hotel in Surat Gujarat. [16]
The 2023 Nationalist Congress Party split occurred on 2 July 2023, when Ajit Pawar, along with several other party leaders, broke away from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by his uncle Sharad Pawar and joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena alliance government in Maharashtra. [1]
To prevent further loss of MLAs, Shiv Sena housed the rest of its MLAs in several hotels in Mumbai. [3] Soon Shinde claimed that he commanded the support of "nearly 40 MLAs". [15] Shinde required support of 37 MLAs (two-thirds of the total strength of 55) to avoid being disqualified under the Anti-defection laws in India. [5]
The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra Vidhāna Sabhā) is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India. It consists of 288 members directly elected from single-seat constituencies. [2]
The two alliances remained intact for the Legislative Assembly elections in October 2019.The BJP and Shiv Sena gained the majority of seats in the Assembly but could not form a government due to squabbles between the two parties.The BJP–Shiv Sena alliance ended in early November 2019, with Shiv Sena subsequently forming a new partnership with ...
The party was formed after a split in Shiv Sena as a result of the 2022 Maharashtra political crisis.The split was caused by Eknath Shinde, who staged a rebellion in the party, getting support of the majority of the MLAs of the Sena and later splitting from the group led by Uddhav Thackeray, forming the Maharashtra government with the Bharatiya Janata Party, in which Shinde got the post of ...