MVA finalises 12 nominees for Legislative Council; Matondkar & Khadse in list: Sources

On Friday, Maha Vikas Aghi government in Maharashtra finalized list of 12 minated members to  Maharashtra Legislative Council. Goverr is mandated by Constitution to minate to legislative council 12 members from fields of literature, art, science, cooperative movement, and social service on recommendation of state government. As per sources, actor and former Congress leer Urmila Matondkar, Chandrakant Raghuwanshi, Vijay Karanjkar, and Nitin Bangude Patil have been selected from Shiv Sena quota.

Sources ded that ex-BJP leer Eknath Khse, former Lok Sabha MP Raju Shetti, Yashpal Bhinge, and Anand Shinde have been chosen by NCP. On or hand, Congress has reportedly shortlisted AICC in-charge of Jammu & Kashmir Rajni Patil, spokesperson Sachin Sawant, Muzaffar Hussain, and Aniruddha Vankar. NCP's Nawab Malik, Congress' Amit Deshmukh, and Shiv Sena's Anil Parab- Ministers in state government formally handed over list of names to Maharashtra Goverr Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai.

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Row over CM's MLC mination

As per Article 164(4) of Constitution, a n-legislator ceases to be a minister if he is t elected to eir House of legislature within a period of 6 months. Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray who was t a member of eir House since being sworn in on vember 28, 2019, was set to be fielded as a candidate to one of 9 MLC seats falling vacant on April 24. However, Election Commission of India indefinitely postponed Rajya Sabha and Legislative Council polls in current period owing to COVID-19 crisis.

Thus, only option for Thackeray was to enter Legislative Council as a minated member. Despite Maharashtra Cabinet recommending his mination as an MLC twice, Maharashtra Goverr Bhagat Singh Koshyari refused to follow suit. Sena chief reportedly h a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding this issue on April 29.

A day later,  Goverr wrote to Election Commission of India requesting election for 9 MLC seats to be held soon. On May 1, ECI agreed to this request and decided to conduct MLC elections with counting of votes scheduled on May 21. Finally, 9 candidates including Thackeray were elected upposed to Maharashtra Legislative Council on May 14, this averting a constitutional crisis. 

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