“The Speaker has recognised our party as the real political party. Our whip will be official," said Anil Patil, Relief and Rehabilitation Minister and whip of the Ajit Pawar-led NCP.
With two different groups recognised recently by the ECI, the speaker is now tasked with deciding on the disqualification petitions filed against each other, where he may also recognise the whip as was the situation in the Shiv Sena case.
The state government issued the notification for Maratha quota after activist Manoj Jarange-Patil led an agitation threatening to go on fast unto death in Mumbai.