Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole submitted his resignation to deputy speaker Narahari Zirwal. Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole resigns from post | Photo Credit: AFP
Mumbai: Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole resigned from his post on Thursday. The high command of the party asked me to resign from the post. I obeyed them, Patole said after he handed over the resignation to deputy speaker Narahari Zirwal.
Patole, the MLA from Sakoli in Bhandara district of Maharashtra was made the Speaker of the state legislative Assembly after the Maha Vikas Aghadi came to power in 2019. Our connection will stay strong. As an MLA I will continue to work and will follow orders. Until the new Speaker is chosen, the Deputy Speaker will continue to work, Patole was quoted as saying by India Today.
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His statement comes two days after Assembly Speaker Nana Patole asked the state legislature to frame a law to make available to the electors the option of casting votes using ballot papers, besides EVMs in the local governing bodies and Assembly polls.
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Pawar said ballot papers were done away with because the electronic voting machine (EVM) helps save other expenses as the process becomes paperless.
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday said the state cabinet will discuss and decide if a suggestion is made to it over framing a law to give electors the option of casting vote via ballot papers besides EVMs in some elections.
Updated Jan 26, 2021 | 13:01 IST
A large number of farmers from several districts of Maharashtra, mostly from Nashik, have gathered in the state capital for a rally in support of farmers protesting against the farm laws at Delhi borders. Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole | Photo Credit: PTI
Mumbai: Maharashtra will not implement the Centre’s three contentious farm laws, Assembly Speaker Nana Patole said on Tuesday as he addressed a rally organised at Mumbai s Azad Maidan to express solidarity with the farmers agitating near Delhi.
A large number of farmers from several districts of Maharashtra, mostly from Nashik, have gathered in the state capital for the past two days for a rally in support of farmers protesting against the farm laws at Delhi borders.
Maharashtra Won t Implement Central Farm Laws: Speaker Nana Patole Tells Protesting Farmers Maharashtra Won t Implement Central Farm Laws: Speaker Nana Patole Tells Protesting Farmers I am first a farmer, then the occupant of a constitutional post, Speaker Nana Patole told the protesting farmers in Mumbai today. We all know on whose directions the Governor functions, Speaker Nana Patole said.
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Farmers, mostly from Nashik district, are protesting in Mumbai
NCP s Sharad Pawar has also extended support to farmers protest
Mumbai:
Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Nana Patole today told the hundreds of protesting farmers at Mumbai s Azad Maidan that the three new contentious agricultural laws passed by Parliament last September will not be implemented in the state. The farmers, mostly from Nashik district, have gathered in the state capital for the past two days in solidarity with thousands of their comrades gearing up for a massive tractor rally in Delhi today aga
: Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 5:52 PM IST Maha govt will not implement farm laws : Assembly Speaker Nana Patole tells protesting farmers at Mumbai s Azad Maidan
Over the last few days, a large group of farmers had made their way to Mumbai s Azad Maidan to register their protest against the recently passed farm laws. Their demonstration was also a show of solidarity with those who have remained stationed outside the national capital for two months now. The rally had been addressed by several prominent leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi including NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Legislative Assembly Speaker Nana Patole.
According to a January 24 report, that quoted the All India Kisan Sabha s Maharashtra unit, around 15,000 farmers had set out for the state capital from Nashik on Saturday in several tempos and other vehicles. Reportedly, the police had amped up security at Azad Maidan, and personnel of the State Reserve Police Force had also been deployed.