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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]
Khan made his electoral debut and became a first time MLA winning from Versova Assembly constituency representing Shiv Sena (UBT) in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He polled 65,396 votes and defeated his nearest rival and two time MLA, Bharati Lavekar of the Bharatiya Janata Party, by a margin of 1,600 votes. [5] [6] [7]
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]
In late June 2022, Eknath Shinde, a senior Shiv Sena leader, and the majority of MLAs from Shiv Sena joined hands with the BJP. [53] [54] [55] Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari called for a trust vote, an action that would later on be described as a "sad spectacle" [56] by Supreme Court of India, and draw criticism from Political Observers. [57]
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 ...
Nar won from Jogeshwari Assembly constituency representing Shiv Sena (UBT) in the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He polled 77,044 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Manisha Ravindra Waikar of the Shiv Sena, by a margin of 1,541 votes. [6] Manisha is the wife of former MLA and Mumbai North West MP Ravindra Waikar. [7]
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 ]