Janjivan Bureau / Mumbai /NEW DELHI : The Union Cabinet on Tuesday recommended President’s rule in Maharashtra where no political party has been able to form a government after the assembly polls last month. Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari recommended President’s rule in the state. As per a statement tweeted by Koshyari’s office, “He is satisfied that the government cannot be carried on in accordance with the Constitution, (and therefore) has today submitted a report as contemplated by provision of Article 356 of the Constitution.”
Article 356, commonly known as President’s rule, deals with ‘failure of constitutional machinery in the state’.
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday also recommended President’s rule in Maharashtra where no political party has been able to form a government after the Assembly polls last month.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the largest party in the state with 105 seats, had earlier decided against staking claim to the form the government in the 288-seat assembly.
The BJP and Shiv Sena had fought the elections last month in an alliance. Once the results came out, Shiv Sena insisted on a 50-50 seat sharing formula including its man as a chief minister for half the term. This wasn’t acceptable to the BJP which got almost double the number of Shiv Sena’s seats.
Unrelenting in its bid to appoint Aaditya Thackeray, its chief Uddhav’s son, as chief minister or one of its own men in the post, Shiv Sena then hobnobbed with the Congress and Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to form the government.
State governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari gave the regional party only 24 hours to prove its majority. While NCP was willing to support the Shiv Sena, it was Congress president Sonia Gandhi and many of her party members who were reluctant to support a party they have never seen eye-to-eye with. The Congress letter of support for the regional outfit never came even as NCP was willing to lend a helping hand.
The governor also called NCP leaders like Ajit Pawar for a meeting to get a sense of the political situation
