As expected, the new state government nominee, Rahul Narwekar, won the Speaker’s post hands down, and took up a plea to act against the Uddhav Thackeray group’s 16 MLAs, who voted against Eknath Shinde faction’s directive in a special session of the Assembly on Sunday. In counter move, the deputy speaker, Narhari Zirwal, accepted the Uddhav Sena’s plea seeking action against the 39 colleagues from the Shinde camp, who had voted for Narwekar.

Zirwal is an NCP legislator, who had rejected a no-trust motion from the Shinde group after the rebellion broke out. The Supreme Court heard the matter and scheduled the next hearing for July 11. The court is likely to receive petitions in Monday’s developments as well.