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Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) faction leader Sanjay Raut launched a broadside against Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narvekar on Wednesday, questioning whether the Speaker was trying to influence the Supreme Courts decision in the much-anticipated verdict on the disqualification petition of the 16 legislators of the ruling Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena...
Mr. Raut alluded to the recent closed-door meeting Mr. Narvekar had with Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on May 2 and also criticised the Speakers tour of London slated on May 11 just when the Supreme Court was due to give its judgement...
Does Rahul Narvekar already know of the Supreme Courts judgment on disqualification of legislators after meeting the Law Minister for over three hours?.
He further claimed that the decision to disqualify the MLAs or not actually belonged to Narhari Zirwal, who was the acting Speaker at the time of Mr. Shindes intra-party revolt which split the Shiv Sena in June last year...
The Sena (UBT) leader also targeted PM Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for forsaking riot-hit Manipur and spending their time in campaigning for the Karnataka election instead...
