Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar has been a target of opposition parties in the state after his verdicts went against Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar in the cases related to the split of Shiv Sana and NCP.
The NCP split in July last year after Ajit Pawar and eight MLAs joined the NDA government led by Eknath Shinde against the wishes of his uncle and party founder Sharad Pawar.
The Supreme Court last month extended the deadline to January 10 for Narwekar to decide on the cross-petitions filed by rival factions of the Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of each other's MLAs.
The Speaker's much-awaited verdict came as a huge relief to Chief Minister Shinde and a major blow to the Shiv Sena-UBT, led by ex-CM Uddhav Thackeray, who had contested the claims of the breakaway group.
During the session, Samajwadi Party (SP) abstained from voting against the BJP candidate. Both its MLAs Abu Azmi and Raees Shaikh kept sitting during the head count.
Mumbai: Sulking Shiv Sena spokesman Rahul Narvekar, who recently withdrew his candidature from Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, today joined NCP and will contest the Lok Sabha polls on the party's ticket from the Maval constituency.Narvekar
Mumbai: Shiv Sena candidate Rahul Narvekar today withdrew from the biennial Legislative Council elections in Maharashtra, paving way for the rest of the candidates to be elected unopposed.Narvekar visited the election office at Vidhan Bhavan
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