MP Rahul Shewale cross-examined in hearing on Sena MLAs’ disqualification

Minister Deepak Kesarkar will be cross examined by Sena (UBT) on Monday.

Sena (UBT) MLA Sunil Prabhu said Shewale lied and the more he lies, the more it will help the Sena (UBT) in the hearing. “The Shinde led Sena will get into trouble because of their lies. In 1999, the Shiv Sena constitution had no provision for chief leader and this is the constitution that they are referring to. The truth will win,” Prabhu said.

Meanwhile, state assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar – who is holding the disqualification hearing – asked the lawyers from both Sena factions to wrap up the cross examination by next Tuesday to ensure that the adjudication of disqualification would be completed before December 31, a date set by the Supreme court.

“The cross examination will be over by Tuesday and the arguments will begin on December 18 and this will be over by Dec 22-23,” The Eknath Shinde faction’s lawyer Anil Sakhare said.

Earlier on Friday, Shiv Sena (UBT) produced an attendance sheet of a meeting of Sena MLAs held on June 21, 2022 at Varsha Bungalow of then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray which shows that 23 Sena MLAs had attended the meeting and approved the proposal to remove Eknath Shinde as the group leader of the undivided Sena’s legislators in the state assembly.

Later out of these 23, eight joined the Shinde faction and only 14 remained with the Uddhav faction.
Eventually 40 MLAs left Uddhav and joined the Shinde faction and only 15 MLAs were left with Uddhav in July 2022.