Twelve Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs have been suspended from the House on Monday, June 5, for a period of one year on the charges of creating a ruckus and for allegedly abusing and manhandling the speaker in the chair and Shiv Sena legislator Bhaskar Jadhav.
The conflict began when senior NCP minister Chhagan Bhujbul stood up to introduce a resolution in the state legislative assembly seeking the release of empirical data on the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) by the Centre for providing political reservation to the community in the local bodies in the state.
The opposition party has claimed political vendetta behind the suspension. While talking to the media, former CM and Leader of Opposition stated that the MLAs were suspended after they objected to the explanation of a government resolution, which has sought the OBCs’ empirical data from the Centre to restore political reservation that has been stalled by the Supreme Court.
Fadnavis alleged that senior minister Chhagan Bhujbal had presented misleading information while tabling the resolution. His party colleagues demanded to speak but left their seats when denied permission, shouting slogans.
The resolution was passed amid the ruckus, and in the meanwhile, some MLAs tried to break the speaker’s microphone. Jadhav adjourned the House for 10 minutes.
The suspended legislators include Sanjay Kute, Ashish Shelar, Abhimanyu Pawar, Girish Majahan, Atul Bhatkhalkar, Parag Alavani, Harish Pimple, Ram Satpute, Jayakumar Rawal, Yogesh Sagar, Narayan Kuche and Kirtikumar Bhangdiya.
Meanwhile, a resolution to suspend the offending legislators was taken upon the demand of Sena MLA and party’s chief whip Sunil Prabhu and NCP minister Nawab Malik.
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