BJP dares MVA to hold polls for Maharashtra speaker's post through secret ballot

On a day it won the elections held for two MLC seats in Maharashtra the state BJP on Tuesday dared the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA to hold the election for the post of Assembly Speaker through secret ballot and indicated that BJP will win itThe BJP retained the Nagpur seat and wrested the AkolaBuldhanaWashim seat from the Sena results for which were declared on TuesdayOut of the total six seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council from five local constituencies which were up for grabs the Shiv Sena Sunil Shinde and the BJP Rajhans Singh bagged one seat each unopposed in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMCIn the Kolhapur and NandurbarDhule MLC polls also the Congress and the BJP respectively secured one seat each unopposedIn Nagpur BJP candidate and former state energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule defeated Mangesh Deshmukh the independent candidate supported by the MVAShiv Senas threetime MLC Gopikishan Bajoria was defeated by BJPs Vasant Khandelwal in AkolaWashimBuldhanaSpeaking to reporters in Pune Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil on Tuesday said Congress played childish games during the election of the Nagpur MLC seat by poaching BJPs corporator Ravindra Bhoyar and offering him a ticketBhoyar withdrew on the eve of the pollsPatil said a conflict between Congress state unit president Nana Patole and minister Sunil Kedar also from Congress came to the fore during the electionsI challenge the MVA to hold the election for the post of legislative assembly speaker through secret ballot instead of by raising hands And you will come to know who becomes the Speaker he saidThe winter session of the Maharashtra legislature is scheduled to be held in Mumbai from December 22 to 28The post of the Assembly speaker has been lying vacant after Nana Patole resigned to head the Maharashtra CongressPatil said the common people are facing hardships under the tenure of the MVA government and they have made up their mind to vote out the ruling dispensationAsked about Congresss stand to contest polls on its own Patil said all the three constituents of MVA Shiv Sena NCP and Congress had decided to safeguard the power first and then resort to oneupmanshipWhen that oneupmanship goes overboard they resort to damage control A recent example is West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees visit to Mumbai When she came to Mumbai Pawar saheb NCP chief and Sanjay Raut Shiv Sena MP rolled out the red carpet for her During her visit she kept on saying where is UPA That time no one took objection But the moment they received a rap from Sonia Gandhi Rahul Gandhi and threatened to take away support Raut started asking how UPA is possible without Congress he claimedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever