Maharashtra Monsoon Session Highlights: Assembly adjourned for first day after Oppn stages walkout

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Maharashtra Monsoon Session live updates |  Only 24 NCP MLAs out of 53 attended the first day of the session. Of these, nine were from the Sharad Pawar camp. The rest, including nine ministers, were seated on the ruling side.

Maharashtra Monsoon Session live updates | Opposition parties staged a walkout demanding the removal of Neelam Gorhe from the post of Deputy Speaker.

Maharashtra Monsoon Session live updates |  Assembly adjourned after commencing for half an hour on the first day

Maharashtra Monsoon Session live updates |  Speaker Rahul Narwekar to decide on the disqualification plea against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and 15 MLAs 

Maharashtra progressing on various indices of education: Devendra Fadnavis

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said the state is progressing on various indices of education, even as NCP president Sharad Pawar has expressed concern over the state's performance as per a central grading index. Fadnavis said, “The valuation system has used 10 grades. In the first five grades, no state has secured a place. Punjab and Chandigarh are in the sixth grade and Maharashtra is in the seventh one. It means Maharashtra is actually on the second position.” "Excluding Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat, Maharashtra is progressing ahead. The situation is not that Maharashtra has slid on these fronts,” he said and claimed a survey for the same was carried out during the tenure of the erstwhile Maha Vikas Aghadi (government).

Maharashtra Monsoon Session live updates |  The Assembly session begins just two days after the Cabinet expansion where eight NCP MLAs were allocated portfolios.

Maharashtra Monsoon Session live updates | The Opposition camp including Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress, and the NCP (Sharad Pawar group) on Sunday boycotted the customary tea party hosted by the Maharashtra government on the eve of the state legislature's monsoon session.

Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) MLAs protest outside the Maharashtra Assembly against the  state government over various issues.

The Congress is likely to stake a claim for the post of Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly.

The post of the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly is lying vacant after incumbent Ajit Pawar of NCP resigned recently and joined the Shiv Sena-BJP government as Deputy Chief Minister. 

Before Ajit Pawar and eight other MLAs joined the Shiv Sena-BJP government earlier this month, the NCP had 53 MLAs in the 288-member Assembly. In the first meeting held by Ajit Pawar in Mumbai post the split in the party, 35 MLAs of NCP and five of the eight MLCs had marked their presence.

Maharashtra monsoon session live updates: Sharad Pawar camp seeks sitting arrangement in Opposition benches
Chief whip of NCP (Sharad Pawar camp) Jitendra Awhad has written to the Maharashtra Assembly speaker seeking a separate sitting arrangement for members of the Ajit Pawar camp and the rest of MLAs of the party for the legislature session beginning Monday. In a letter addressed to Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Sunday, Awhad said except for the nine MLAs- including Ajit Pawar- who have joined the government, the Nationalist Congress Party is part of the opposition.

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