Nagpur.
In a significant development during the ongoing winter session of state assembly here on Monday, Dhananjay Munde of NCP has been appointed as the Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Legislative Council. The winter session will be ending on December 24.
Members welcomed the announcement of Munde’s name for the coveted post by Council’s Chairman Shivajirao Deshmukh. Munde was escorted to his Chair by other members and group leaders of BJP and Shiv Sena.
Munde, nephew of late BJP stalwart Gopinath Munde, seems to have piped Congress which had also staked the claim to the post.
The non-appointment of the LoP in the Council, since the session began on December 8, resulted in many disruptions of proceedings with the opposition parties demanding immediate filling of the post in view of discussions on important issues they had lined up.
However, the post of Leader of Opposition in Assembly is still lying vacant since elevation of Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde as a cabinet minister in the BJP-led NDA government in the state.
