MLAs

MUMBAI: State Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Friday decided to club the 34 petitions in the Shiv Sena MLAs disqualification case into six groups based on the cause of action. Of the six groups, four groups have petitions filed by the Sena (UBT) and two groups have petitions filed by the Eknath Shinde-led Sena. Narwekar has also asked Shinde-led Sena to submit before him by October 25, documents that...

BHUBANESWAR: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday announced to have expelled two BJD MLAs — Soumya Ranjan Patnaik and Sudhansu Sekhar Parida — from the party. A party statement later cited their involvement in anti-people activities as reasons behind the action.The BJD said a media organization run by Soumya faces serious cases of organized bank fraud involving loans worth crores of rupees in...

MUMBAI: Appearing for the first time for a hearing on disqualification petitions filed by the rival Shiv Sena factions, MLAs from both the Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde camps made written submissions before speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday. The hearing which followed the Supreme Court order was, however, marked by allegations from the Uddhav Thackeray camp that the speaker was deliberately...