The Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government had recommended a list of 12 names to the Governor as MLCs in November 2020. Subsequently, a petition came to be filed in the High Court in 2020 seeking directions to the Governor to decide on the same. The High Court held last year that it is the Governor’s constitutional duty to accept or return names within a reasonable time.
A year later, after a political upheaval, the State government changed and Eknath Shinde took over as the new Chief Minister of the State.
The new cabinet reportedly wrote to the Governor that they were withdrawing the pending list of 12 names submitted by the earlier government. The Governor accepted the same on September 5, 2022, and his office returned the list back to the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO).
This has been challenged by Sunil Modi, Area Head of Kolhapur Municipal Corporation, who is part of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) faction.
Modi has raised grievance against the Governor’s refusal to act on nominations made to the Legislative Council of Maharashtra for an inordinately long period of 1 year and 10 months.
Source: Barandbench
