Sharad Pawar On Uddhav Thackeray Mistake: Days after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar wrote in his autobiography that Uddhav Thackeray’s decision to resign as Maharashtra chief minister “without a fight” has been confirmed by a Supreme Court verdict. It was indeed a big mistake.
The Supreme Court on Thursday (May 11) pulled up the then Governor of Maharashtra for asking Thackeray to prove his majority in the Assembly in June 2022 and also said that it cannot restore the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.
The Supreme Court held that it could not order the reinstatement of the Uddhav Thackeray government as it had resigned without facing a floor test, though the governor’s decision to call for a floor test was wrong and the speaker wrong in appointing the whip of the Eknath Shinde group. Were.
The CJI said that the status quo cannot be restored here, as Thackeray did not face the floor test and tendered his resignation. Therefore it was appropriate for the Governor to administer oath to Shinde with the support of the single largest party BJP.
should have faced a vote of confidence
Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan also Eknath Shinde and termed Thackeray’s decision to resign following the rebellion of several other Shiv Sena MLAs as a “big mistake”. In the last week of June, when the Shinde group was camping outside Maharashtra and Thackeray announced his resignation through ‘Facebook Live’, Chavan had said that he should face a floor test instead.
Sharad Pawar has said in his updated autobiography ‘Lok Majhe Sangati’ that it was feared that an attempt would be made to destabilize the Thackeray-led government of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance. He wrote, “But we had no idea that there would be a storm within the Shiv Sena if Uddhav Thackeray became the Chief Minister.”
Pawar writes in the book, “The Shiv Sena leadership failed to quell the discontent…As soon as Uddhav Thackeray resigned without a fight, the MVA’s term in power came to an end.”
‘He didn’t do it, it was a mistake’
Chavan, a former Maharashtra chief minister and Union minister, said there was no inkling that Thackeray would resign after the cabinet meeting on June 29, 2022. He reiterated on Thursday, “It was a big mistake. If the governor had demanded a trust vote, then you should have gone to the assembly and presented your side. We would have got a chance to present our side. After that whoever had the majority would have won. It was okay even if you had lost the trust vote, but they did not do so, it was a mistake.
Senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal also expressed the same view. Bhujbal, who was in the Shiv Sena, said, “Pawar said that Thackeray did not take us into confidence before resigning. He didn’t tell us anything. He should have discussed with all the three parties.
read this also: Karnataka Exit Poll Results: ‘Government in formation…’, HD Kumaraswamy’s party JDS told its intention after exit poll
