Privilege motion accepted against Raut, Pawar, and YouTube channel

The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly has accepted a privilege motion against Shiv Sena UBT MP Sanjay Raut NCP Sharad Pawar faction MLA Rohit Pawar and a YouTube channel The motion moved by Mahayuti minister Jaykumar Gore was accepted by Speaker Rahul Narwekar who confirmed that the privilege committee would investigate the matterOn Thursday Rural Development Minister Gore presented the privilege motion before the state assembly asserting that Raut Pawar and the YouTube channel had levelled false accusations against him He stated that they had alleged he harassed a woman but clarified that the case was old and had already been tried in court where he was acquitted in 2019ldquoThese baseless allegations are an attempt to tarnish my image and it is essential to give a strong response to such defamatory claimsrdquo Gore told the House while justifying the motionParticipating in the discussion BJP MLA Sudhir Mungantiwar suggested that the privilege committee should reach a decision on the matter before the budget session concludes on 26th March The motion will now be reviewed by the privilege committee which will determine the next course of actionNoconfidence motion moved against Council deputy chairperson Neelam GorheTheMaha Vikas AghadiMVA has moved a noconfidence motion against Neelam Gorhe deputy chairperson of the Legislative Council On Wednesday during an informal interaction with media persons on Vidhan Bhavan premises Shiv Sena UBT leader Anil Parab confirmed the development stating that a notice of motion had been served to the Vidhan Bhavan secretaryAsked the grounds on which the motion had been moved Parab said ldquoWhen the notice comes up for discussion on the House floor one will come to know the reasonsrdquo According to the Sena camp members of the Congress and Sharad Pawarled faction of the Nationalist Congress Party had signed a letter to move the noconfidence motion against Gorhe who was elected to the Upper House in 2002 2008 2014 and 2020After the Shiv Sena split in 2022 Gorhe was associated withShiv SenaUBT but joined thenChief Minister Eknath Shindersquos faction in July 2023 She was recently in the news for making a controversial statement against Uddhav Thackeray at a public event in Delhi claiming that one had to gift two Mercedes to secure plum posts in the undivided Shiv Sena Following this UBT leader Sushma Andhare filed a defamation case against Gorhe for making statements against Thackeray and his partylsquoWhy so much cruelty in MaharashtrarsquoRuling NCPrsquos senior MLA Chhagan Bhujbal on Wednesday expressed concern over ldquorisingrdquo incidents of cruelty in Maharashtra and referred to the brutal murder of a village head in Beed and custodial death of a protester inParbhanidistrict among other cases Speaking in the Assembly on the motion thanking Governor C P Radhakrishnan for his address to the joint sitting of the state legislature the former minister called for united efforts to calm the situationBhujbal whose party NCP is a constituent of the ruling Mahayuti coalition maintained the state has been shaken by incidents of violence and crime in the last few months ldquoBe it the ghastly murder of sarpanch Santosh Deshmukh in Beed district custodial death of protester Somnath Suryavanshi in Parbhani attack on a youth belonging to the Dhangar community in Latur or gruesome assault on a Dhangar youth Kailash Borhade in Jalna for entering a Shiv Mandir Will anyone talk about these incidents From where did so much cruelty come in Maharashtrardquo he wonderedHe urged Speaker Rahul Narwekar to take lead in holding a meeting of all sections of society to discuss how to calm the situation and maintain peace and amity Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said the torture of Borhade was a ldquoblotrdquo on humanity