'All-party' delegation including Pawar, Raj, Uddhav to meet Chief Electoral Officer: Raut
Mumbai (PTI): An "all-party" delegation including NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and MNS president Raj Thackeray will meet Maharashtra's Chief Electoral Officer on October 14 ahead of civic body elections, MP Sanjay Raut said here.
State Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal, Ajit Nawale of the CPI, Prakash Reddy of the CPM and Jayant Patil of the Peasants and Workers Party will also be part of the delegation, and Samajwadi Party's Abu Azmi too has been invited, he said.He had also invited Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis as well as the Ajit Pawar-led NCP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena to be part of the delegation, Raut, a Sena (UBT) leader, said.
Despite the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena not being part of the Opposition's Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance, Raj Thackeray will join the delegation, he noted.
"Meeting the Election Commission is a formality, because it does not do anything. Still, we have some questions, some secrets which can be disclosed only before the Election Commission. We must constantly put forth our position before the EC since it is constitutional arrangement," he said.
At the same time, it was like "banging one's head against a wall" as the EC is working under political pressure, Raut claimed.
Delegation members will later hold a press conference at the Yashwantrao Pratishthan auditorium, he said.
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Remarks on PM Modi: Bombay HC reserves order on Rahul's plea against defamation plaint
Mumbai (PTI): The Bombay High Court on Tuesday reserved orders on a petition filed by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi seeking quashing of a defamation complaint over his alleged remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
A single bench of Justice N R Borkar heard the plea and closed it for orders.
The defamation plaint was lodged against Gandhi before a magistrate's court in Girgaon in August 2019 by Mahesh Hukumchand Shrishrimal, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
According to the complainant, Gandhi had made defamatory statements against PM Modi at a rally in Rajasthan in September 2018.
The magistrate's court had issued a summons to Gandhi, who challenged it in the High Court, terming the complaint frivolous and vexatious, which deserved to be quashed.
