Maha Sankat: ‘Shinde will not resign even in his dreams’ said Ajit Pawar; Uddhav again threatened to go to court

NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Friday reacted to Uddhav Thackeray’s demand that Eknath Shinde resign on moral grounds, saying it was unnecessary. Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday demanded that Eknath Shinde should resign on moral grounds after the Supreme Court refused to restore status quo ante in Maharashtra.

“There is no need to demand resignation from present CM Eknath Shinde on moral grounds. We know that he will not resign even in his dreams. There is a huge difference between former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the current ones Year Quoting Ajit Pawar.

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Uddhav Thackeray today reiterated his demand and said that Shinde was not following the ideology of Shiv Sena founder late Balasaheb Thackeray. Thackeray further insisted that he had resigned as CM last year following a rebellion within the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena on moral grounds. He said, ‘I do not regret my decision.

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled on a batch of cross petitions filed by Shiv Sena’s Shinde and Uddhav factions and refused to restore status quo ante in Maharashtra. A bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud observed that if Thackeray had not resigned, the court would have restored status quo. “The status quo cannot be restored since Thackeray resigned,” the bench said.

The Supreme Court also said that the case of disqualification of 16 MLAs (Shinde faction) is not an extraordinary circumstance which warrants the court to decide the course of action. The apex court asked the Speaker to decide on the disqualification proceedings.

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Reacting to the judgement, Uddhav Thackeray demanded the Speaker to decide on the matter at the earliest. “The relief to this present government is interim. The speaker should take a decision on the matter at the earliest. If he gives any wrong decision, we will go to court again,” Uddhav Thackeray said.

NCP leader Ajit Pawar also commented on the issue of disqualification of 16 MLAs (Shinde faction) and said, “Our Speaker then resigned without asking our Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, this should not have happened. Even if he had resigned, we could have elected a new president immediately. If we had a speaker then those 16 MLAs would have been disqualified.”