As per report midnight coup planned and executed in maharashtra on saturday by the bharatiya janata party (BJP) has been stymied for the moment. Meanwhile for some time, the ruling party may have had visions of having safely pouched one of the most important states in the country, but those visions have been dispelled by the Supreme Court.
Perhaps the highest court in the land made it clear in its order on tuesday that members of the Legislative assembly would have to be sworn in by a pro-tem Speaker and a floor test conducted by him by 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Furthermore this order then induced the (now ousted) chief minister, devendra fadnavis, sworn in almost in secrecy on saturday morning, to hit the panic button. He resigned as cm not long after the court had passed its order, admitting that he did not have the numbers to form a government.
Moreover the Nationalist congress Party’s (NCP’s) ajit pawar, then already elected the leader of his legislature party, who had for all practical purposes ditched his party and its commitment to an alliance with the congress and the shiv sena, had been sworn in as deputy chief minister alongside fadnavis, via saturday morning’s egregious and secretive gubernatorial action. Perhaps the moment the shiv sena repudiated its pre-election alliance on the basis of the 50:50 demand and decided to team up with the ncp first, with the congress buying in after some pretty lengthy confabulations, any rational person should have known that the game was up.
