CM Eknath Shinde snubs Thackeray once more, pulls Shiv Sena off BAC meeting

Mumbai 11 Aug : In a new attack on former CM Uddhav Thackeray, the Shiv Sena faction in the Maharashtra Assembly was dropped from the crucial Business Advisory Committee (BAC) meeting to prepare for the coming Monsoon Session of the Legislature.

But, two ministers of the faction ruled by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde are added in the BAC -two of them - Dada Bhuse as well as Uday Samant.The BAC headed by Shinde and attended by the group heads of every party on Thursday, decided to extend the Monsoon Session by two days and it will now be held from August 17-25.

This is because the legislature wont be in session on the 19th of August (Dahi Handi celebrations) and the weekend, and two additional days are able to allow discussions and decisions on a variety of issues.The BAC includes Assembly members such as Shinde as well as the BJPs deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar, NCPs Jayant Patil as well as the BJPs Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil Sudhir Mungantiwar, Chandrakant Patil, and Congress Balasaheb Thorat and Ashok Chavan.

There are also invited guests like the Deputy Speaker Narhari Zirwal (NCP), Ashish Shelar (BJP), Chhagan Bhujbal (NCP) and Amin Patel (Congress) in the BAC.From the Council along with the Deputy Chairperson Neelam Gorhe, the BAC has the newly appointed the Leader of Opposition Ambadas Danve and Anil Parab both of whom are of Shiv Sena, Pravin Darekar and Vijay Girdhar (BJP), Shashikant Shinde (NCP) and Bhai Jagtap (Congress).The guests from the upper house were Chandrashekhar Bawankule and Ranjitsinh Mohite-Patil (BJP), Jayant Patil (PWP), Kapil Patil (Lok Bharati) and Vikas Potnis (Shiv Sena).

After the government of Shinde Fadnavis and Shinde was inaugurated on June 30 the monsoon session was originally scheduled to begin on July 17 but was delayed due to various reasons.qn/ar.