Maharashtra: Shiv Sena slams Shinde-Fadnavis for cabinet expansion, says government stuck in ‘constitutional dilemma’

The Shiv Sena on Monday attacked the Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis government in Maharashtra, saying it was taking arbitrary decisions without a cabinet despite being caught in a “constitutional dilemma”. Shinde and Fadnavis were sworn in as chief ministers and deputy chief ministers on June 30, but there has been no cabinet expansion since then, even as the new government decided to rename the metro rail carshed in Aarey, Aurangabad and Osmanabad. also decided about In the form of the upcoming Navi Mumbai airport, among others.

Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray faction says Shinde-Fadnavis government is illegal as disqualification petition of rebel MLAs is pending before Supreme Court. Earlier this month, it had also asked the governor not to administer oath to any minister as the top court was yet to decide on the disqualification petition. Dubbing Shinde and Fadnavis as Vasu and Sapna, the lead characters of the blockbuster film ‘Ek Duje Ke Like’, an editorial in their mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ on Monday said that the two-member government is an unusual experiment and political family planning. But due to the Supreme Court resorting to forced vasectomy, he is facing this situation (not expanding the cabinet), the editorial said. An iconic 1981 film starring Kamal Haasan and Rati Agnihotri, who play Vasu and Sapna, are madly in love with each other but meet a tragic ending.

The party said that in the last 15 days, there has been one Chief Minister and one Deputy Chief Minister in Maharashtra, but one cannot call it a government. It said over 40 MLAs swarmed between Surat, Guwahati and Goa amid the rebellion, but when they came back to Mumbai, only two (Shinde and Fadnavis) took oath. It asked how this two-pillar government could call the order of the Uddhav Thackeray government to rename Aurangabad to Sambhajinagar, Osmanabad to Dharashiv and the new Navi Mumbai airport after DB Patil as unconstitutional. The party also rejected the Shinde government’s decision to resume work on the Aarey Metro Rail Carshed, which was put on hold by the Thackeray government citing environmental concerns. The Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra on Saturday gave cabinet approval to rename the cities of Aurangabad and Osmanabad as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Dharashiv respectively.

The decision to rename these cities was taken by the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in its last meeting on June 29. The Shinde government, however, maintained that the decisions were illegal as the floor test was asked by the governor. Meeting.

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