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A Special Session of Maharashtra Assembly is to be held on July 3 and 4. On July 2, the nomination for Speaker’s election will be filed. On July 3, election for Speaker will be held and on July 4, the Vote of Confidence will be taken.
The BJP has 106 MLAs and the Shinde camp has 50 legislators, including 39 Shiv Sena MLAs, which is clearly above the majority mark of 144. Besides this, BJP has also claimed the support of several independent MLAs.
Meanwhile Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde has staked his claim to the legacy of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. Shinde changed his Twitter profile picture to one with Thackeray, reinforcing his statement that he and his men were the true inheritors of Bal Thackeray’s legacy of Hindutva.
He has maintained that Uddhav Thackeray aligned with the very parties Bal Thackeray detested — NCP and Congress — and his soft stance on Hindutva had hurt the sentiments of Sainiks and the people of Maharashtra.
