A day after the Bombay High Court sought an explanation on why the governor has still not appointed the 12 members to Maharashtra’s Legislative Council despite the council of ministers submitted its recommendation to the Raj Bhavan on November 6, 2020, a right to information (RTI) query has revealed that the governor’s secretariat doesn’t know the names of nominees.

RTI activist Anil Galgali has received a reply from the public information officer in the governor’s secretariat that the 12 names were unavailable. “The secretariat has given me shocking information. Jayaraj Chaudhary, under-secretary, Governor’s secretariat, informed me that the list of governor-appointed Legislative Council members was not available in the office of the public information officer (administration),” said Galgali.