A day after Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation met and claimed that the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has lost the majority in State Assembly, State Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on June 29 (morning) directed Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to prove the government’s majority on June 30, Thursday.
Directing the Secretary of the Legislative Assembly to convene a special one day session by exercising his of his power under Article 174 and 175(2), Mr. Koshyari in his letter stated that ‘floor test for proving the majority of the Chief Minister is imperative to ensure that the government continues to function with the confidence of the house.’
Ruling Shiv Sena, which is faced with a rebellion against its Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray by party’s second in command Eknath Shinde and 38 other MLAs has approached the Supreme Court demanding stay on the Governor’s Order of convening a session at a time when proceeding of disqualification against 16 rebel MLAs is pending.
