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Maharashtra politics: With Ajit Pawar in, Cabinet bins ordinance NCP resented
Updated On: 19 August, 2023 07:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Dharmendra Jore
Provision, which barred ‘inactive’ cooperative society members from voting and contesting polls, gone for good after years of back and forth under different governments
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(From left) Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar at an event. File Pic/Sameer Markande
With the participation of Ajit Pawar-led NCP splinter, the Eknath Shinde-led Cabinet on Friday withdrew an ordinance that took away the right of a cooperative member to vote and contest elections for failure to participate in the affairs of the society. “The ordinance has been withdrawn because, if the provision remained, the members of cooperatives would have faced more difficulties and there would have been a possibility of frequent legal battles,” the chief minister’s office (CMO) said.
The provision was made during the BJP-Sena government of 2014-19, but was removed in March 2022 by the MVA government in which the NCP was in charge of the Cooperation Department. A year after coming to power, the BJP-Shinde Sena sarkar brought back the provision in June 2023. However, months later, it was once again removed as the newest member of the ruling coalition—Ajit-led NCP splinter—is averse to it.
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