NEW DELHI: Demanding a floor test immediately, the Congress on Sunday alleged that the BJP is “running away” from proving a majority in the Maharashtra Assembly as it does not have the required numbers.
Congress’s chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the BJP and NCP’s Ajit Pawar have “maligned” the constitutional values and the Devendra Fadnavis government in the state is “illegitimate”. A floor test is the only answer to the current crisis, Surjewala asserted.
Congress leader and former state chief minister Prithviraj Chavan said any delay in floor test would lead to horse-trading of MLAs.
Shiv Sena MP Gajanan Kiritkar, who was also at the Supreme Court, said the letter stating NCP’s support that was given by Ajit Pawar to the governor was misleading. He said the NCP MLAs who backed Ajit Pawar are back with the party.
Surjewala claimed that the BJP and Ajit Pawar are running away from a floor test as the Congress-NCP-Shiv Sena combine has the majority.
“The moment a floor test is ordered, our majority will be established and it will be proved that the BJP, in a surreptitious midnight operation using the office of the governor, constituted an illegitimate government,” he said.
Replying to a question on whether the Cong-NCP-Sena have numbers to prove the majority, Chavan said, “We have been insisting on a floor test which means we have the numbers. It is the BJP which is shying away from it.” (PTI)
