Maharashtra: Opposition's singing protest against Eknath Shinde govt's 'corruption' at Assembly

The Maharashtra Assembly once again saw dramatic scenes on 27 December 2022 as Opposition MLAs conducted a singing protest, accusing the Eknath Shinde government of corruption.

Ajit Pawar of NCP, Aaditya Thackeray of Shiv Sena's Uddhav faction, and Nana Patole of Congress were among the protestors.

A day earlier, the Opposition had disrupted proceedings of the House over demands that Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar resign over a controversial land regularisation order. The order was passed by him when he was a minister in the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government.

The Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court last week issued a notice to Sattar who had ordered 'regularisation' of the possession of land reserved for public 'gairan' (grazing) in favour of a private person in the face of a civil court order.

Earlier, the opposition members had also demanded Chief Minister Shinde's resignation after a Nagpur bench of the HC on December 14 ordered status quo on a decision taken by him of allotment of land meant for slum dwellers to private persons when he was a minister in the previous Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA.

Shinde had denied any wrongdoing and the HC on December 22 accepted the withdrawal of the order of regularisation issued by the CM recently and observed it was treating the matter as closed.

(With PTI inputs)

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